The document summarizes the results of a survey about Selenium use. Key findings include: - The majority of respondents automate at least 25% of their tests using Selenium. - Jenkins is the most popular automated testing tool used alongside Selenium, adopted by 55% of respondents. - Over 90% of automated testing responsibilities lie with QA teams, not developers, analysts, or interns. - While 22% use cloud-based solutions like Sauce Labs, many others are interested but concerned about security risks of cloud environments. - Testing teams tend to be small (1-5 people) or large (50+ people), with few medium sized teams.

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2. Q1: Which Selenium products do you use?

3. Q2: If not using the IDE, what language do
you predominantly write your tests in?

4. Q3: What percentage of your tests are
automated?

5. Q4: What other automated testing tools do
you use?

6. Q5: Of your automated tests, how many are
automated with Selenium?

7. Q6: Who is primarily responsible for creating
and maintaining your tests?

8. Q7.1: Do you use a cloud-based solution to
manage or run your Selenium tests?

9. Q7.2: If you selected “not interested” above,
why?

10. Q8: Have you previously hired a Selenium
contractor to help with your suite?

11. Q9: How many people work at your company?

12. Q10: How many people in your company work
on testing?

13. Key Takeaways

14. Selenium Users Automate Tests,
Lots of Them
The vast majority of respondents regularly
automate their tests. In fact, 84 percent of
respondents automate at least a quarter of
them, while almost a third of all respondents
automate more than 75 percent of all testing.

15. Jenkins is Wildly Popular Among
Selenium Users
In addition to Selenium, survey respondents use
a variety of other testing tools, but none so
popular as Jenkins. The open-source continuous
integration software is used by a whopping 55
percent of testers.

16. QA Teams Shoulder Almost All
Testing Responsibility
Who do you think is responsible for testing in
most companies: QA teams, developers,
business analysts, interns? We thought it
might be a healthy mix, but not even
close…QA teams are responsible for over 90
percent of automated testing, according to
our respondents!

17. Cloud-Based Solutions Are Still a
Mystery to Many
Do you use a cloud-based solution to manage
or run your Selenium tests (e.g. Tellurium,
Sauce Labs, BrowserStack)? If you answered
“yes,” it turns out that you’re ahead of the
curve but in the minority. Only 22 percent of
respondents had experience using a product
such as Tellurium or Sauce Labs, but most of
the others were interested in using a cloud-
based solution, or at least hearing more about
the different options.

18. “Cloud” is Often Synonymous
With “Insecure”
Of the 35 percent of respondents who
weren’t interested in a cloud-based solution,
the biggest concern was security. This we
anticipated. It’s not uncommon for “cloud” to
be synonymous with “insecure” and “at-risk”
in the minds of many. That, however, is a
misconception and highlights the need for
continued discourse and education, our
primary goal at Test Talk.

19. Contractors Less Popular Than
Expected
We asked respondents if they’ve ever hired a
Selenium contractor to help with their test
suite and the pie chart looked like Pac-Man,
with the resounding “no’s” making up the
body. More than 77 percent had never hired a
Selenium contractor, while the rest had either
dealt with a contractor in the past or were
interested in doing so.

20. Company Size Doesn’t Impact the
Need to Test
Of course we were interested in the size of the
company each respondent represented, so we
asked. Our audience was evenly distributed
from companies with five or less employees to
organizations with over a thousand.

21. Testing Teams Don’t Come in
Many Shapes and Sizes
What do you think is more common, small
testing teams (1-5 people) or enormous teams
(50+)? Turns out they’re about equally as
common, making up for a combined 62 percent
of responses. Not quite as common are
medium-sized teams. It seems that companies
either test big, test small, or don’t test at all.
Teams in the 11-50 testers range made up for
just over 21 percent of respondents.

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