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How are Open Source tools (such as #Selenium) enabling digital enterprises?01.Q

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@saivram #Selenium has in-built support to work with multiple browsers seamlessly

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Enterprises today aspiring to be digital are embracing Open Source tools (Selenium) for realizing quicker quality outcomes

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@midhun_pingili Digital enterprise runs on Browser and Mobile apps & #Selenium fits well

@midhun_pingili Appium works very well with Mobile apps & is a solid contender for commercial #testautomation tools

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech Open source tools enable innovation, cross platform test automation, assuring reliable, robust software

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Selenium being open source, is extensible, & has widespread adoption across CI pipelines & frameworks to accelerate release cycles.

Current automation debt like high volume of automated test scripts built on existing proprietary tools

Free/lower tool cost makes it feasible to avoid the “buy before you try” dilemma common to proprietary s/w solutions

What are the key drivers for moving to Open Source Tools like #Selenium?02.Q

@sivaramans

Sivaraman Sundararaman

@subhendup Selenium supports many programming environments helping you leverage your existing team competencies

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

helps QA Organizations to reduce tool procurement/maintenance/support costs as well as vendor dependence.

@anilkm108

Anil Kumar Mishra

Cost seems to be possibly the primary criteria @galloptech https://t.co/Twtg9U6oTx

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@subhendup #Migrate2Selenium beauty is, if you know any programming language, chances are high that #selenium supports it. isn't that cool ?

@subhendup number of selenium testing professionals are exponentially growing

@galloptech #Selenium It is open source and Free. Who does not like free stuff ?

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Seen as crucial test automation tool in realizing DevOps & digital transformations strategy.

License/support/maintenance/subscription costs, IT/Service provider costs, organizational costs, Tool switching costs #Migrate2Selenium

Learning curve in re-skilling existing automation engineers using scripting language to Selenium based Java, C#

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech #Selenium offers best in class tech, powerful scripting,multi language support, no vendor lockin, quick ROI

How do you determine ROI while moving to OpenSource Platform?03.Q

@subhendup

Subhendu Pattnaik

@kalyanrkonda @hemanthyamjala @midhun_pingili Huge possibilities. I think we would just have to wait and watch

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Adoption of Test Automation,Agile,DevOps is increasing Y-o-Y for achieving speed,integration, quality

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech Effective ROI of moving 2 selenium to be measured on Speed, Effort & Cost with which migration is completed

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@hemanthyamjala @midhun_pingili big fat one-time licensing costs & recurring yearly maintenance costs are out

@subhendup #Migrate2Selenium for ROI, Investment includes people and licenses costs. License costs being zero is a huge advantage

What are some of the challenges limiting adoption of Selenium in your enterprise?04.Q

@anilkm108

Anil Kumar Mishra

@galloptech Investment on legacy or existing tools by enterprises becomes biggest inhibition for selenium adoption

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Lack of awareness availability of testscript migration tools like Gallop QuickLean for migrating existing scripts to Selenium

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech old testing approach,vendor lock in, multi year agreements,manual testing, limit the adoption of open source

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@AmitGallop @midhun_pingili big challenge is, "it is new" and "not done before".

@AmitGallop @midhun_pingili Investments made in test automation suites that are built using commercial tools

Organizations have trained teams on commercial automation tools. What are unique skillsets needed for Selenium?

05.Q

@Savkomal

Komal Lopez

Re-skilling is the key!

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Knowledge of Selenium Webdriver, Object Oriented Programming language skills like Java, C#

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech dev mindset, automation centric approach, Java,C#,Groovy,Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby are the skills required

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@galloptech No specific unique skills. if you know any programming language, that should be fine

@galloptech if you like to write code, Selenium allows you to do complex programming in multiple languages

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

definitely yes to Android as it has less limitations especially parallel execution related aspects

@subhendup

Subhendu Pattnaik

@Srikanth_Kasula Will folks working with Android have an edge over folks working in iOS? #migrate2Selenium

Enterprises work with many applications using legacy 3rd Party controls. In this light, what are problems in Selenium adoption?

06.Q

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@anilkm108 @galloptech Selenium does not seem to like Legacy apps and technologies it is a tool built for #future

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Other than ERP apps, Selenium’s extensibility capabilities allows automation of most of the apps/controls that are out there

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@galloptech Unfortunately, Selenium does not work with Thick client applications.

@galloptech Selenium can't work with 3rd party products like SAP, People Soft etc.. you have to use commercial tools

Commercial tools provide updates. Can lack of frequent releases impact Selenium?07.Q

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Post Selenium 3.0, the WebDriver implementation has been tightly coupled to major browsers for better testing experience

@anilkm108

Anil Kumar Mishra

Ongoing support & releases is surely one of the issues with Selenium that few of the enterprisesraise…

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech Frequent releases are now part of selenium, as a open source project is well managed and released very fast

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@galloptech we don't need frequent releases :-). We need releases that are functioning and #highquality

@galloptech #selenium has frequent releases. if you don't have what you need, you can write. it is #opensource

@sivaramans

Sivaraman Sundararaman

@komal_lopez #Migrate2Selenium a concern mitigated by the fact that Selenium has huge open source & commercial community support

@komal_lopez Selenium community has already published roadmap for 4.0, and 5.0

@Savkomal

Komal Lopez

Is Selenium the tool for future? How robust it can be?

@subhendup

Subhendu Pattnaik

I also wanted to share this - Why is #Migrate2Selenium so critical? https://t.co/WgHPTmAv2O

How do you choose the right Selenium based framework?08.Q

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Gallop's Test Automation Framework is widely being used by many enterprises.

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@galloptech It depends on skill-sets, volume of scripts, frequency of execution

Right framework is the that meets your needs. Factors to think about are #costs #speed #skills #scalability

@Savkomal

Komal Lopez

The right approach will determine effective adoption of Selenium #SayNoToBadSoftware

How do you migrate from COTS to Open Source?09.Q

@Srikanth_Kasula

Srikanth_Kasula

Gallop’s migration tool allows seamless migration from COTS tools to open source platforms

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@galloptech #Selenium check out the automated script conversion tool from #galloptech

@Savkomal

Komal Lopez

Migration needs expertise, and an experienced partner

@kalyanrkonda

Kalyana Rao Konda

@galloptech #Migrate2Selenium you can do it manually which is not very smart.

@anilkm108

Anil Kumar Mishra

If the migration is taken care, it will be a big relief for enterprises wanting to adopt open source @galloptech…

@subhendup

Subhendu Pattnaik

@kalyanrkonda Here is a great post by Rajesh - https://t.co/h8Kio5Nc5u

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@galloptech Migration is a specialist job.It requires an automated tool 2 seamlessly migrate the scripts intelligently

@galloptech We will keep building innovation into helping enterprises leverage the power of open source through this tool

IT Services Research Director, NelsonHall

Dominique Raviart

A Discussion with

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@DominiqueR_NH Effective ROI of moving to selenium should be measured across Speed, Effort, Cost of overall migration

@DominiqueR_NH

Dominique Raviart

@galloptech Very good point below. How do you determine ROI? #ITservices https://t.co/V2DSIn9pUH

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@DominiqueR_NH @galloptech #Migrate2Selenium it depends on the no. of lines of code that need to be migrated typically 5x faster than manual

@DominiqueR_NH

Dominique Raviart

@galloptech What is the cost in $ and time of migrating scripts to #Selenium? #ITservices

@DominiqueR_NH

Dominique Raviart

Final question @galloptech :-) Are your clients adopting other testing open source software? Or is it mostly Selenium?

@DominiqueR_NH

Dominique Raviart

@galloptech Obviously you have a lot of experience around Selenium What are the do's / don'ts when using Selenium #ITservices

@subhendup

Subhendu Pattnaik

@DominiqueR_NH @galloptech I think we will need a detailed answer. Here is an interesting post - https://t.co/KamfeqC5a6 #migrate2Selenium

@saivram

Sairam Vedam

@DominiqueR_NH @galloptech yes few more open source tools as well jMeter, jUnit, SoapUI, Cucumber etc

@DominiqueR_NH

Dominique Raviart

@galloptech Thanks for sharing your thoughts about Selenium today! #ITservices

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