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Simple, 0 configuration, fast. With a new installation of Selenium I always have to download the Firefox/Chrome drivers, have to setup paths, debug startup erros, plus it crashes pretty often.
No, I meant installing npm
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>This is one of the biggest weaknesses with Selenium -- it takes a very narrow view of what testing is Selenium/WebDriver isn't a testing tool. It's a a W3C protocol for remote control of web browsers. I think once you get over that misconception, selenium starts to make a lot more sense.
That still doesn't explain to me design decisions like how WebDriver's file upload works. If I'm remote-controlling a browser over a network, wouldn't I occasionally want to send it an arbitrary file upload? Why do I need to separately transfer the file using a different service, and then refer to it with the disk path? The only reason I can think of is, "normal users couldn't do that." But normal users also can't co…
The selenium maintainers seem to have a very strong opposite opinion.