Selenium, AutoIt, Sikuli experience compare?

Question

I am job searching and am seeing a lot of Selenium requirements in job descriptions lately. I know that Selenium is an automation tool for web testing but what I don't know is how it compares to using AutoIt and Sikuli. I am very familiar with AutoIt and Sikuli tools but not familiar with Selenium as far as enterprise use. I could simply download Selenium and fool around with it but as far as professional experience, I have none.

So my question to automation professionals out there is if I have a good deal of experience in AutoIt and Sikuli, would I be a good fit for a position that deals solely with Selenium?

Answer 1

Have experience only with AutoIt and Selenium . What I can say about AutoIt -> script written on it are suitable for WIN platform only. Imagine the situation when you need to run you test (that covers a piece of functionality on a web page) on 2 notes: win note and macBook. For Win your script be working OK , for Mac it will fail. OR, a little bit modified: if you need run your script simultaneously on several machines and/or in several browsers. Selenium will fit OK for this. But for another side: such case like attachment a file on a webPage or any other kinda of attachment - will not work with pure Selenium. AutoIt will handle it nice.

So it was 2 little casees in particular. In overall, selenium is used for functional UI automation of web application(-s) . And if you have experience of scripting you will be able to adjust your skills.

My recommendation to you - start recording script with SElenium IDE , then export these recorded scripts in testNg , and then try to understand their structure.

Good luck! :)

Answer 2

As someone who has fairly extensive experience with Sikuli and Selenium (but none at all with Autolt), I would say that Sikuli skills are not very transferable to Selenium. The theory side--the logic and algorithmic thinking you'd use to problem solve would be much the same, but the technique of execution are so very different between the two, that if I were doing the hiring, I wouldn't hire a person with no experience in Selenium but vast experience in Sikuli, if there were any reasonable Selemium-experienced people to choose from.

I imagine, though, that if you could demonstrate proficiency, or create and show your own projects that use an array of Selenium skills, that could go a long way to smoothing reservations a hiring company might have...

Take that for what it's worth, esp since I have no experience with Autolt.

Answer 3

Selenium is used for Web-Automation or Web Applications or website related automation.

Autoit can only be used for Windows GUI Automation or Windows based applications. No Image Recognition purely on elements based usage.

Sikuli on the other hand, can be used for automating both i.e. Desktop Apps and Web-Apps. It basically finds the match of the given Image in the screen by using Image Recognition and then you can perform tasks on that like click, double click, input text etc.