We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The ability to really drill into performance issues and help our application teams understand what is causing the business's problems."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"One of the key things with Dynatrace is that they are very open to influence on product development side. So, we've influenced them fairly heavily on development and capabilities for Citrix and DC RUM. They've given us integration and support components around some odd technologies that we've got, and they have always been very open and accommodating to going after and developing capabilities around the stuff that we are looking for."
"By using Dynatrace Managed, we have improved customer satisfaction and have also helped internal teams and subcontractors make the application more stable."
"We are able to get insights into our systems, which previously took us weeks to be able to detect."
"It is very easy to create customized dashboards."
"This tool enables us to make intelligent, fact-based decisions faster."
"Having OneAgent is the most valuable feature of Dyantrace, as well as the monitoring."
"The solution is very flexible; there are different ways of using it. It's open-source and has a lot of support on offer."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"Our platform runs into several thousand screens and a few thousand test cases, something which would typically take months to test manually. As of today, the entire process takes a little over two days to run."
"The most valuable feature is the Selenium grid, which allows us to run tests in parallel."
"It's not too complicated to implement."
"It has helped to complete tests in less time, which would not be possible relying on manual testing only."
"Data parametrization and parallelization are the most important features in any automation tool."
"It supports multiple processes, which is great."
"For the user, for the customer, they expect a solution to be not so expensive."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."
"It does not have mature enough dashboards."
"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."
"The thread traceability is something that needs improvement."
"Data streaming and dashboard loading can be improved to reduce dashboard latency."
"If the user interface were made more intuitive then it would really benefit the product."
"It takes such a long time to use this solution that it may be worth looking into other free solutions such as TestProject or Katalon Studio, or paid solutions to replace it."
"Selenium HQ doesn't support Windows-based applications, so we need to integrate with the third-party vendor. It would be great if Selenium could include Windows-based automation. You need to integrate it with a third-party tool if you want to upload any files. When we interact with a Windows application, we usually use Tosca."
"We'd like to see some more image management in future releases."
"Katalon has built a UI on top of Selenium to make it more user-friendly, as well as repository options and the ability to create repositories for objects, among other things. It would be helpful if this type of information could be included in the Selenium tool itself, so people wouldn't have to do filing testing."
"Sometimes we face challenges with Selenium HQ. There are third party tools that we use, for example for reading the images, that are not easy to plug in. The third party add-ons are difficult to get good configuration and do not have good support. I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
"Coding skills are required to use Selenium, so it could be made more user-friendly for non-programmers."
"It would be better if it accommodated non-techy end-users. I think it's still a product for developers. That's why it's not common for end-users, and especially for RPA activities or tasks. It's hard to automate tasks for end-users. If it will be easier, more user-friendly, and so on, perhaps it can be more interesting for this kind of user."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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