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Leapwork vs Selenium

Explore which platform enables your team to achieve comprehensive test coverage—faster, more efficiently, and without the need for specialized resources.

Leapwork vs Selenium

Ensuring seamless customer and employee experiences requires end-to-end testing across web, mobile, desktop, and API layers. For teams managing large regression suites and fast release cycles—often with varying skill levels—low-code and no-code platforms with AI-driven capabilities offer faster, more scalable test automation. Selenium and Leapwork both support enterprise test automation but differ significantly in approach—one open course and code-based, the other no-code composable and built for speed, collaboration, and reuse.

Platform capabilities: A side-by-side comparison

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Platform capabilities
Composable test automation
Build complex data-driven tests visually without code
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Reusable test flow
Reuse and standardize test flow components
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Dynamic regression testing
Instantly and automatically apply updates across all subflows containing the logic
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Autonomous test resiliency
Automatically re-running failed flows to determine real defects vs. temporary issues
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Test data management
AI-powered test data transformation, generation, and extraction
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Hypervisual debugging
One click to root cause via video recordings, data-level insight, and activity logs
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Test coverage
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End-to-end testing
Testing across multiple complex applications within a business process
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AI testing
Validation of AI application logic and algorithms
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Analytics
Comprehensive test analytics
Insightful analytics and test execution results
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Connectivity & integrations
Cloud-based services
Enhanced automation and data processing capabilities 
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DevOps integration
Comprehensive CI/CD and test plan integrations
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Enterprise readiness
Parallel test execution
Scalable testing for multiple concurrent test cases
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Enterprise governance and compliance
Tamper-proof audit logs, video-based reporting, and secure access control and provisioning
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Why enterprises choose Leapwork

While Selenium offers powerful web testing and open-source flexibility, enterprise teams with desktop, mobile, and large regression needs should consider Leapwork. Its visual, no-code platform allows testers of all skill levels to build and maintain complex, data-driven tests efficiently. With reusable flows, automatic updates, and AI-augmented capabilities, Leapwork eliminates the challenges of scripting—reducing duplication, accelerating execution, and enabling scalable, standardized automation.

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True end-to-end testing

Test end-to-end across Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Azure services, custom-built applications, and even legacy systems. Every critical step of the business process is covered.

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Test any app, on any platform

Automate tests on web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and mainframe environments. Teams don’t need separate tools for different platforms, simplifying their tech automation stack and reducing costs.

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Painless regression testing

Update test logic once and automatically apply the change across all relevant test flows. Eliminate hours, even days, of manual updates, ensuring faster releases with less risk of defects slipping through.

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Smarter testing. Lower TCO.

Johan Stolk

"With Leapwork, testing time has been dramatically reduced, the speed of delivery has increased three-fold, and the QA team can focus on more exploratory work."

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