What are the limitations of Selenium?

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What are the limitations of Selenium?

Answer

Following are the limitations of Selenium:

1. Selenium supports testing of only web-based applications

2. Mobile applications cannot be tested using Selenium

3. Captcha and Barcode readers cannot be tested using Selenium

4. Reports can only be generated using third-party tools like TestNG or JUnit.

5. As Selenium is a free tool, thus there is no ready vendor support through the user can find numerous helping communities.

6. The user is expected to possess prior programming language knowledge.