Selenium is a popular open source, cross browser functional testing tool. You can learn more about it here. If you’re looking for functional testing solutions that use real web browsers, we strongly encourage you to take a look at Selenium.
We have a close relationship with Selenium: BrowserMob’s founder, Patrick Lightbody, was the original creator of the most popular version of Selenium, Selenium Remote Control. So it’s not surprising that BrowserMob utilizes Selenium technologies for both the record and playback of web traffic.
Because Selenium is a functional testing tool, it isn’t really meant to be used as a load product. There are two reasons for that:
- Selenium doesn’t capture and report the type of data that load testers want.
- Selenium uses real browsers, meaning you need a ton of hardware to simulate a load test.
BrowserMob solves both of those issues and has successfully turned a popular functional testing tool in to an excellent load testing tool. This has an added benefit that if you are already using Selenium for functional testing, you likely already have scripts needed to do load testing.
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nik · May 13, 2009 at 2:55 am
Selenium uses real browsers, meaning you need a ton of hardware to simulate a load test.
is this not a comfusing thing when Browsermob claims is using real browsers as it main benefit over the rest of apps doing the same?.