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Yes, that's true.
Let check keyword statistics for USA on indeed.com:
Test Automation gives 22,100 positions
Selenium gives 5,263 positions
TestComplete gives only 90...
First of all companies are looking people for general processes and only then for particular tool.
Most of companies do not know what exactly they need. They only know that they need test automation. Some of them know about Selenium, because it is really good and (!) free.
- mgroen28 years agoSuper Contributor
baxatob thanks for the reply.
Searching on 'TestComplete' on indeed.com for Netherlands only give 12 results :(
Recognizable : companies just shout 'we need to start doing testautomation', but have no clue as to how to start it on a mature level, and so they follow the rest of the herd and choose Selenium... but it is really good? It's good for developers, but requires specific skillset and it's not really practical for the 'non technical' QA kind of people....
- tristaanogre8 years agoEsteemed Contributor
To be honest, the trend is the same across the industry, even here in the US, especially for testing web applications everyone wants Selenium or similar experience. Two reasons that I figure this is the case:
1) Selenium is free and the current global economy is all about doing the most with less capital. Especially with smaller companies.2) The industry is more and more heading into the web and the cloud for their software solutions and companies are looking for a "Web testing tool". TestComplete does web testing but it is not an exclusively web testing tool so any searching will come up with Selenium.
- Colin_McCrae8 years agoCommunity Hero
As has been said, the move to web based service has pushed a lot of testing Selenium's way.
It's also free, has multiple language bindings, and has actually been adopted recently as a W3C standard. Which are all big factors in it's uptake I suspect.
In my office, I was initially doing both web and desktop testing, now I focus almost entirely on desktop. The web based stuff is now done using fixtures written by the devs, and scripts written by the testers.
To be honest, I wouldn't worry too much about adverts mentioning the specific tool. I'd never used TC before I started here 4 years ago. Indeed, I'd never heard of it either. My background was QTPro. But my current employer asked me to look at tools and select one I thought was best fit for them. TestComplete was it. Handles more technologies out of the box. Offers multiple scripting languages. And is a lot cheaper then QTPro (probably TC's closest competitor - I think so anyway).
Both have their plus and minus points. But having used TC for a few years now, I do prefer it over QTPro. (Or whatever QTPro is called now. I know HP renamed it a while ago.)
So just the fact that you know automation is the main thing. The concepts are the same in most. But the execution varies. And if you're familiar with the concepts, learning new ways to execute them is a lot easier than starting from scratch ....
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