ACCELQ vs Selenium vs Commercial tools for Salesforce Test Automation

Why Choose ACCELQ for
Salesforce Test Automation?

Following is the summarized listing of capability comparison between ACCELQ, and other commercial/open-source tools for Salesforce test automation. This data has been gathered from our own analysis, internal/external surveys, feedback from customers on respective tools and industry analyst findings. ACCELQ is available for a free trial to assess in your own environment.

AUTOMATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

	ACCELQ	SELENIUM	OTHER COMMERCIAL TOOLS
Automation Type	Codeless	Programming	Keyword based or Programming
Scripting Required	No	Yes	No
Ease of adoption	Very high	Low	Average
Ease of maintenance	High	Low	Average
Element ID	Salesforce Metadata where available, Visual explorer with neighborhood awareness (readable text based), Repeat and Container Elements. Comprehensive and non-technical	Xpath and CSS, custom selectors	Salesforce metadata where available Xpath for custom fields and custom validations
In-Sprint Automation	Supported with intelligent abstraction	No	No
Test Design	Included	No	No
Test case generation	Automated with the concept of Data Type	None	None
Reusability and Modularity	In-built with Context and Action concept at the core	Manual	Manual
Test Management	In-built test management with requirements based traceability and test readiness	None	None
Reporting	Rich HTML reports with slideshows, defect integration, perspectives etc.	None	Basic Reporting

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SUPPORT STACK

	ACCELQ	SELENIUM	OTHER COMMERCIAL TOOLS
App Exchange Listing	Listed under “Developer Tools” Category	None	Listed under “Consulting” Category or not listed
Salesforce support	Lightning, Classic and Visual Force pages.	Framework effort	Lightning, Classic and Visual Force pages
Supported Web technologies	All Web Technologies including Angular, React and other UI frameworks	Programming effort	Non-Salesforce applications hard to automate
Supported Enterprise applications	Salesforce, Pega, Net Suite etc.	None	Salesforce, ServiceMax
API Testing	SOAP and REST, along with an ability to combine with UI testing. Extensive verification and data parsing capabilities.	No	Yes, limited
Cross browser testing	All browser support (IE, Edge, Firefox, Chrome) against Windows, Linux & MAC,	Yes	Manual
Windows Automation	Supported	No	No
Manual testing	Integral and unified with automation	No	None

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INTEGRATIONS & EXTENSIONS

	ACCELQ	SELENIUM	OTHER COMMERCIAL TOOLS
Eco System Integration	Well defined, two-way integration with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TFS	None	Light weight integration
External API	Complete open API for executions, reporting and status verifications	N/A	None
Extendability of Core	Full blown extendabilty of core with User Extension workbench	N/A	None
CI/CD integration	Integration support for Flosum, Gearset, Copado, AutoRabit, Jenkins etc.	None	Jenkins, Auto Rabit
ALM Integration	Available for test executions and reporting	None	None
Cloud Infrastructure	Direct integration with Browser Stack, Sauce Labs and LambdaTest	None	None

INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS

	ACCELQ	SELENIUM	OTHER COMMERCIAL TOOLS
ECloud, with zero setup requirement	Yes	N/A	No
Scheduled Runs (outside of CI)	Extensive control with daily/hourly or weekly automated executions and notifications	Framework Dev	None
Online Support Portal	Yes	N/A	Yes
On Premise	Yes	N/A	Yes
SAAS	Yes	N/A	No
Distributed Executions	Yes, across a network of nodes or Sauce Labs/Browser Stack	Framework Dev	No
Backp & Recovery	Automatically included in the subscription	None	No

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

	ACCELQ	SELENIUM	OTHER COMMERCIAL TOOLS
Natural Language Automation	Powerful natural language editor allows you to write test automation logic in plain English.	No	No. Normally rely on Keyword selection
Self-healing Capabilities	Powerful & intelligent element capture technology creates robust automation. AI-powered Self-healing capabilities	No. Require framework extension integration with Selenium which is not seamless.	Traditional object interaction with limitations to handle complexity and newer tech stacks
AI-based reconciliation	Automated and AI-based reconciliation for UI and Object changes	No	No
Auto-Generation of Test Cases	AI-driven data permutations auto-generate test cases providing accurate coverage	No	No
Change Management	Adaptive Change Management. Universe driven with referential integrity analysis drastically reduces time to market & cost	No	No

ASSET MANAGEMENT

	ACCELQ	SELENIUM	OTHER COMMERCIAL TOOLS
Test Assets alignment with vendor releases.	Test Assets are end-to-end aligned with platform vendor Releases. Live updates on new Releases by vendors.	No	Support is static in nature. Requires tool upgrade to support anything new.
Referential Integrity across assets	A naturalized model with referential integrity across pages, test steps, objects, and suites. Automates the change impact process efficiently, propagating changes across test assets.	No	No
In-built version control	SaaS based multi-user collaborative platform on cloud with In-built version control	No	No Requires connecting with GitHub for version control.
Shift-Left Testing	Design & author tests parallel to Application development enabling true shift-left	No	No
Test Suite re-executions and roll-up tracking	Umbrella style rerun capability for suite re-executions and roll-up tracking	No	No

Salesforce Success Story

Staying ahead of the rapid changes and iterations in a large-scale enterprise platform can be challenging. The ACCELQ testing platform helps us do this, with an enterprise testing platform that simply works.
Through ACCELQ Universe Test Suites, Reporting, and CI/CD Integration we are able to stay ahead of the rapid changes and ensure we deliver only quality enhancements to our Platform.