We performed a comparison between k6 Open Source and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."The standout feature of k6 is its strong focus on API performance testing."
"The solution is free to use."
"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."
"It is compatible with and supports multiple languages, such as Java and Python. It is open source, and it is widely used."
"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."
"My customer previously validated every file and it would take almost 15-20 minutes for a document. They used to randomly select and test only 100 out of the thousands, maybe 85,000, files, to pick up sampling. Each file would take around 20 to 25 minutes, so we were not able to do it manually, but with the help of Selenium, we were able to test all the files in two days. It saves a lot of time."
"It supports multiple processes, which is great."
"The plugins, the components, and the method of the library with Selenium is very user defined."
"There is a supportive community around it."
"One area where k6 could improve is by introducing a GUI similar to JMeter."
"I would like to see Selenium HQ support legacy platforms."
"Whenever an object is changed or something is changed in the UI, then we have to refactor the code."
"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."
"It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly."
"You need to have experience in order to do the initial setup."
"Selenium HQ doesn't have any self-healing capabilities."
"Technical support isn't very good. Sometimes their recommendations were not very clear."
"Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way."
k6 Open Source is ranked 14th in Regression Testing Tools with 1 review while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 102 reviews. k6 Open Source is rated 7.0, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of k6 Open Source writes "Offers good scalability and has the ability to integrate with various systems and services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". k6 Open Source is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, RadView WebLOAD, Akamai CloudTest and BlazeMeter, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and OpenText Silk Test.
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