Limitations of Selenium

These are some of the limitations of Selenium :

• Desktop Application :
  Automation Testing for desktop applications is not supported by Selenium.
• Web Services :
  Automation testing cannot be performed on web services like SOAP or REST using Selenium.
• Built-in Object Repository :
  A built-in Object Repository like UTF/QTP is not present in Selenium for maintaining objects/elements in centralized location.
• Built-in Repository facility :
  There is no Built-in Reporting facility available.
• Inbuilt repository capability :
  An inbuilt reporting capability is not present in Selenium. There will be a relyment on plug-ins like JUnit and TestNG for test reports.
• Image Testing :
  After performing practically Testing on images is not possible so to overcome it we need to Integrate Selenium with Sikuli.
• New usage :
  New usage may or may not work properly. No is responsible for its usage.
• Test Management :
  For Test Management, no test tool integration is provided by Selenium.
• Popups and Frame :
  It becomes difficult while processing the popups or frames.
• High Skills :
  In order to automate tests more effectively, a high skill sets are required by Selenium.
• Community forums :
  There is a relyment on community forums to get your technical issues resolved this is because Selenium is open source software.
• Language :
  To create tests scripts in Selenium WebDriver we must know atleast one of the supported languages.