We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."User-friendly and open source."
"It is open source as well as relatively extendable. It allows us to extend and add additional functionality and features. Its deployment is also very easy."
"I appreciate JMeter's simplicity and power for performance testing."
"It is an open-source tool that is easy to use. It can be easily integrated with multiple tools, including Selenium."
"The metrics part of it and the ability to write your custom code to do some specific tests in the performance testing space are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is being able to launch many requests and scheduling simulating human interactions with the application."
"The product helps me get the expected performance from applications or servers and reduces costs. It also enhances the performance of the services and helped them reach their ultimate capacity."
"It is cost-effective and simple to use."
"It supports most of the mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, IE and etc."
"Selenium HQ's most valuable feature is picking up and entering values from web pages."
"It's easy for new people to get trained on this solution. If we are hiring new people, the resource pool in the market in test automation is largely around Selenium."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"Has a good Workday application that enables us to handle some of the custom controls."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open-source, has a good interface, and integrates well."
"Some of the most valuable features of this solution are open-source, they have good support, good community support, and it supports multiple languages whether you use C-Sharp or not. These are some of the most important benefits."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"It should be easier to combine multiple scripts. If you have multiple scripts, you need to write a new script to combine those scripts. The virtual user generator is slow."
"Self-healing and page rendering for the end-users are not available in Apache JMeter."
"In Micro Focus LoadRunner we can go from the UI and we can configure it. There is no such feature in Apache JMeter. There should be UI-based recording history or logs."
"We would like some reporting and analysis tools to be added to this solution."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"It has some proxy-based dependencies which require specific proxies to be set up or disabled, which causes problems."
"Its reporting could be improved. There should be a better visual representation. That would be helpful for easy consumption of the reports."
"In this tool, automation in general is almost non-existent. Everything is done manually."
"For now, I guess Selenium could add some other features like object communications for easy expansion."
"I don't have that much experience with it, but I know that Selenium is more used for websites. It is not for testing desktop applications, which is a downside of it. It can support desktop applications more."
"When we upgrade the version, some features are missing. I want the product to include some AI capabilities."
"It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly."
"There are some synchronization issues"
"The solution is open-source, so everyone relies on the community to assist with troubleshooting and information sharing. If there's a complex issue no one has faced, it may take a while to solve the problem."
"I would like to see XPath made more reliable so that it can be used in all browsers."
"Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way."
Apache JMeter is ranked 1st in Performance Testing Tools with 82 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Katalon Studio, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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