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I want to know what kind of test cases we cannot automate using selenium webdriver.

I do not want to use any 3rd party tool (Autoit, etc..)

What are the limitations of Selenium WebDriver?

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    IMHO this is too broad. You probably cannot test any low-level hardware stuff like CPU caches, memory throughput or driver memory leaks. I don't think it is really suitable for testing SAP GUI. I would not use it in a C# environment. You'd better not do any time critical image processing with it but use OpenCV instead. Basically, everything for which it was not designed to be used...
    – Thomas Weller
    Jun 8, 2015 at 13:55
  • You cannot test my toaster with Selenium.
    – dzieciou
    Jun 8, 2015 at 21:02

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As I know captcha (Some captcha you can test) you can not test using selenium webdriver.

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  • Hopefully we can do this in the future. We had been able to read faces for a long time now: how-old.net
    – Pacerier
    Jun 8, 2015 at 9:42
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  • Gestures - User can perform multiple clicks on submit button / search button occasionally which could result in page reloads / transactions cancelled

  • Image / Video Previews - Between transitioning between thumbnail and playback of videos I have observed not well automated

  • Payment gateway timeouts - During peak transactions there could be timeouts with payment gateway. This depends on network throughput, time out which is really a production dependant scenario

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    I totally agree with siva's answer... And also with qa4it on the point of automating captcha! And i'd like to add that you cannot write tests for performance/load testing using webdriver...
    – IAmMilinPatel
    Oct 1, 2014 at 4:08
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1- As you said you dont want to use any Third Party tool, then you can not handle windows browse or upload file button using selenium because its syntax is like this-

Example:
<input type="file" id="browsecv" name="browsecv"> /<input>

or 

you can search it on below link and then inspect for **"browse"** button
link: http://my.naukri.com/manager/createacc2.php?othersrcp=9280&wExp=N

2- you can not handle any controls whose attribute or field is hidden. in simple you cannot handle Hidden element using Selenium. 3- CAPTCHA -> Either in the form of image or Number Can not handle by selenium.

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You can't simulate a recovery from a system crash (either loss of internet or machine crash). I'd usually cover these manually to ensure that the devs are posting data in an appropriate transaction (to avoid partial posts).

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  • Bar code reader can't be tested.
  • If you are using TestNG then you can do load testing,please read this
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  • The reader can be tested, not the barcode generator. The reader is just a keyboard. You can just send the same keys the barcode-reader would generate. I have done this in the past to test thousands of combinations and see how the system would handle them.
    – Niels van Reijmersdal
    Jun 8, 2015 at 20:38
  • Hi Niels,can you please tell me example or any reference?
    – Aru
    Jun 9, 2015 at 2:43
  • @NielsvanReijmersdal - I'd respectfully disagree here. Using the keyboard buffer to simulate a barcode reader isn't actually testing the reader-software hookup: it's testing the software handling of expected barcode reader input. If the barcode reader is incorrectly configured or faulty, this method will not expose that problem.
    – Kate Paulk ♦
    Jun 9, 2015 at 11:19
  • @KatePaulk I understand. Often I take a shortcut and expect the supplier and operations to test their ends, but maybe I am to development team focused in my answers and comments.
    – Niels van Reijmersdal
    Jun 9, 2015 at 11:56

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