Endtest vs Selenium

Endtest is an agentic AI platform for creating, managing and running end-to-end automated tests for web and mobile applications. Its Test Creation Agent accepts a goal in plain English, runs it in a real browser, observes the result and adapts the test. Endtest says teams can build tests without coding or advanced QA engineering experience. Maintenance features include self-healing locators, AI assertions and variables, and failure analysis that groups flaky tests and explains failures. Listed capabilities also include visual, API, email and SMS, and accessibility testing, plus AI test import. Tests run on real Windows and macOS machines with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Mobile testing covers native, hybrid and web apps on real devices, iOS simulators and Android emulators through public or private device clouds. Plans begin at $175 a month; Starter includes 1–5 parallel tests and 30-day result retention, while Pro costs $450 a month and includes 2–5 parallel tests and 90-day retention. A 14-day trial is available, and there is no free plan.

Selenium is a free suite of tools for automating web browsers, primarily to test web applications. WebDriver provides language bindings for controlling browsers locally or remotely, and is a W3C Recommendation. The main project supports.NET/C#, Ruby, Java, Python, and JavaScript. Selenium IDE is a browser add-on for recording and replaying interactions in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. For distributed tests, Selenium Grid spreads work across machines and combinations of browsers and operating systems. Grid offers Standalone, Hub and Node, and Distributed configurations; Docker and Kubernetes deployment resources are also linked. Selenium Manager can discover, download, and cache browser releases and drivers. Documentation covers browser-specific functionality for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, and names GitHub Actions and Jenkins as CI/CD examples. Selenium began in 2004 at ThoughtWorks in Chicago. Grid has no authentication by default, and the project advises restricting external access and placing it behind a secure network. The latest Opera driver functionality is not supported, and that driver is officially unsupported. Selenium costs nothing.