Challenges faced while working on Selenium

Challenges faced while working on Selenium

There are many challenges we face while working on selenium. Some of the challenges are:

Challenges faced that are as follows:

·         Frequently changing UI. It always need to make changes in code most of the time.

·         Stuck somewhere while running automation scripts in chrome browser getting error that element is not visible, element not found.

·         New kind of element like ck-editor, bootstrap calendar and dynamic web tables. But get the solution always.

·         Reused of test scripts.

·         To be continued

1. configuration challenges on different machines
2. selenium's compatibility with browser versions like with FF20 is not supported with some web-driverversions.
3. handling IE/chrome etc.
4. popup handling
5. Ajax handling
6. security certificate handling
7. iframes
8. date pick from calender.
9. identifying locators
10. Upload and download file
11. Maintain the scripts to work properly irrespective of new build
12. Diff to identify script has failed may be unable to locate the element
or config issue(Browser updated) if your framework is not able to catch issue.
13. If you are using xpath as a locator. writing xpath without using dynamic changing data.
i.e., xpath generated dynamically.