Selenium vs Windmill

Differences between Selenium and Windmill 

These are the some difference i found between selenium and windmill whatever these tools are mostly same web based automation tool.

1. Selenium IDE (Test Recorder) mean it like a Firefox plugin we need to install the plugin so we should install firefox . more >>

      selenium IDE is shown below 

          Windmill IDE is not a plug in. It is a separate interface after installation    finished just type this in command line 

                                          windmill firefox "your testing URL"

It will open two windows one is windmill IDE (Test Recorder) 

other one is selected URL web page with selected browser for an example above command it will open with Firefox browser and we have the following options of browser 

• IE
• Safari   
• Opera

2. Wind mill IDE integrated with debugging tools such as firebug , firebug lite and inspector so it is easy for get the location of fields. 

But selenium IDE not integrated with any debugging tool so we need to install web based debugging tool in our browser for get the location of fields.

3 . Selenium support many language and many testing framework below selenium IDE image is shown 

but windmill support only for python , java script and ruby so we need programming experience on  these languages .

4.Wind mill can automatically access or transfer between two or more differing security domains  but when we take selenium it trusted mode IE and Firefox browser 

         

       

5. Proxy manipulation support only for windmill.In selenium we need to get Selenium RC server for proxy manipulation.

Reference 

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-testing/
• http://www.getwindmill.com/features