Open Source Selenium Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Selenium is UI.Vision RPA. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Selenium and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Selenium are Cypress.io, Playwright, Crusher and Testsigma.

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Selenium is a suite of tools specifically for testing web applications. Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on that records clicks, typing, and other actions to make a test, which you can play back in the browser.

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  1. UI.Vision RPA icon
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    UI.Vision RPA

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    Open-source task and test automation tool and Selenium IDE. The UI.Vision RPA software is a browser extension that can do desktop automation as well! Use it for web automation, form filling, screen scraping and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

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    UI.Vision RPA software is a browser extension, but it can do desktop automation as well!

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox

    Top UI.Vision RPA Features

    1.  Workflow Automation
    2.  Screenshot OCR
    3.  Compatible with Selenium IDE
    4.  Command line interface
    5.  Task Automation
    6.  Auto-Refresh
    7.  Screen Scraping
    8.  Visual UI testing
    9.  Works Offline
    10.  Robot Process Automation
    11.  UI testing
    12.  Browser integration
    13.  Robotic automation
    14.  PDF OCR
    15.  Data export/import
    16.  Automatic Form-Filler
    17.  Marketing Automation
    18.  Macro Recording
    19.  Support for scripting
    20.  Website Monitoring
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    frankr5

    It works with screenshots, not xpath selectors. Kantu is much easier to use, especially on modern websites with tons of Javascript.

    Positive comment •Dec 19, 2016
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    • Almost everyone thinks UI.Vision RPA is a great Selenium alternative.

    • UI.Vision RPA is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Selenium.

    • UI.Vision RPA is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Selenium.

    • UI.Vision RPA is Freemium and Open SourceSelenium is Free and Open Source
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    Cypress.io

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    Cypress is a front end automated testing tool created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a...

    29 Cypress.io alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    Cypress.io Features

    1.  User Testing
    2.  Coding
    3.  Dashboard
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    Cypress.io VS Selenium

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    • Almost everyone thinks Cypress.io is a great Selenium alternative.

    • Cypress.io is the most popular Web-based alternative to Selenium.

    • Cypress.io is Free and Open SourceSelenium is also Free and Open Source
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    Playwright

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    Playwright is a Node library that automates Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox browsers with a single API for reliable web automation.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Playwright Features

    1.  Cross browser testing
    2.  NPM
    3.  C-sharp
    4.  Golang
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    Comments about Playwright as an Alternative to Selenium
     
    hbauer

    Works very well; good docs.

    Positive comment •Apr 20, 2023
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    • Playwright is Free and Open SourceSelenium is also Free and Open Source
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    Crusher

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    Crusher all in one testing framework. It includes everything w.r.t to e2e testing, a test recorder(local app), test runner and web app for you.

    8 Crusher alternatives
    Crusher npm command

    License model

    • Free Personal • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online

    Crusher Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  React
    3.  Selenium testing
    Discontinued

    Seems abandoned. The last commit to their repo was in January 2022. The backend URL which is used in the app also does not have an "A" or "CNAME" record. Also their docs link does not work on their website.

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    Testsigma

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    Testsigma is a powerful open source test automation platform and enables anyone to create tests for web, mobile apps and APIs in just minutes. Testsigma’s complete platform unifies all the capabilities of a traditional, fragmented test stack.

    44 Testsigma alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    Testsigma Features

    1.  Cross browser testing
    2.  Continuous Testing
    3.  Regression testing
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    Testsigma VS Selenium

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    • Testsigma is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Selenium.

    • Testsigma is Paid and Open SourceSelenium is Free and Open Source
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    CasperJS

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    CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko).

    22 CasperJS alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    CasperJS Features

    1.  Web Testing
    2.  Works with SlimerJS
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    Discontinued

    Based off phantomjs which no longer under development

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    TestCafe

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    TestCafe is a pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps. It takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports. TestCafe doesn’t need browser plugins - it works in all popular modern browsers out-of-the-box.

    15 TestCafe alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    TestCafe Features

    1.  Web Testing
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    Comments about TestCafe as an Alternative to Selenium
     
    Guest

    TestCafe has its own driver for browsers so it's not just another wrapper around Selenium but whole new testing framework on its own. Also provides functionality that was never possible with selenium like testing on remote devices or isolated environment for user roles in one test. Also it's just an npm package so installation and setup is as easy as typing npm install testcafe no more dependencies, no more configuration.

    Positive comment •Sep 18, 2017
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    • Almost everyone thinks TestCafe is a great Selenium alternative.

    • TestCafe is Free and Open SourceSelenium is also Free and Open Source
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    Uier

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    Codeless or low-code User Experience test editing and management using Selenium to perform testing or UI automation. Uier tends to be a free self hostable alternative to Applitools, Endtest, Ghost Inspector, Usetrace, Screenster and many others.

    15 Uier alternatives
    For each test, parameters can be specified such as the starting URL domain and which browser to use. Define the commands that follow the scenario desired to test. Once the test is saved, it can be ran and the results will be output and can be observed for each step.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Tests can be combined in a collection. With a collection, the default parameters can be overwritten. This allows a test to not only run against it's predefine URL domain or browser, but against any desired combination. This is a useful feature to facilitate running the same test against a development environment, a user acceptence environment, a build server, etc.

    Uier Features

    1.  Unlimited users
    2.  Support for Multiple Users
    3.  Website testing
    4.  Selenium testing
    5.  Free API
    6.  Continuous Testing
    7.  Cross browser testing
    8.  Browser-based
    9.  Cross browser support
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  12. Selenoid icon
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    Selenoid

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    Selenoid is a free open-source replacement of Selenium Grid running browser tests in Docker containers. It is known to work in big clusters with 5000+ parallel browsers, scales with no downtime and is used all over the world.

    8 Selenoid alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    CodeceptJS

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    CodeceptJS is a modern end to end testing framework with a special BDD-style syntax. The tests are written as a linear scenario of the user's action on a site.

    13 CodeceptJS alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS

    CodeceptJS Features

    1.  User Testing
    2.  Web Testing
    3.  UI Automation Scripting
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    PhantomBuster

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    Boost your marketing with our cloud APIs. Our bots automate all the major websites (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram...) Productivity increase guaranteed! Alternatively, you can create your own APIs thanks to our developer platform.

    92 PhantomBuster alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Firefox

    PhantomBuster Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  Marketing Automation
    3.  Data Mining
    4.  Web-Based
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    Watir

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    Watir is an open source Ruby library for automating tests. Watir interacts with a browser the same way people do: clicking links, filling out forms and validating text.

    32 Watir alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby

    Watir Features

    1.  Ruby
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