Automatic wait is not applicable for Non-angular applications. It waits for webpage to finish pending works before executing next step in your tests. It supports Automatic wait for Angular applications. You need to explicitly synchronize your tests with application using different kinds of supported waits in Selenium. No automatic synchronization between your tests and application. NodeJS provides runtime environment to run JavaScript programsĬhrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer ( IE), Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, Phantom (No longer officially supported.), HtmlUnitDriverĬhrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer ( IE), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Phantom(No longer officially supported.) You can use for Non-angular applications as well.Ĭ#, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Perl.

It is specially designed for Angular and AngularJS applications. It is supposed to support any front end technology based applications as it does not specify support for any specific technology. Supported Front End Technology Based Web Application Let’s compare Protractor and Selenium ( Selenium WebDriver) on different Comparison Basises:- Comparison Basis Although Protractor can be used for any non-angular application as well but the beauty of Protractor for Angular application will be missed. Protractor is designed specially for automating Angular applications. Official website of Protractor says that:- Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Selenium can be used to automate any technology based application which needs a browser. It does not specify any specific technology based web applications. Official website of Selenium says that:- Selenium automates browser. I will compare Selenium and Protractor in this post, which will help you to decide which tool is best suited for your requirement. Generally most of the people are well aware of Selenium ( Java and Python bindings) and afraid of choosing any other tool on top of Selenium.

Protractor and Selenium both are used to automate front end of web based applications.