Koneru Srinivas, Chandra Prakash, A Comparative Study of Testing Framework with Special Emphasis on Selenium for Financial Applications, International Journal of Soft Computing, Volume 12,Issue 3, 2017, Pages 148-155, ISSN 1816-9503, ijscomp.2017.148.155, (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2017.148.155) Abstract: Selenium and appium are the best choices of open source tools for testing web based and mobile based applications. For its cross platform and multi browser compatibility and its support to write scripts in C#, Ruby, Java, Python and Perl has gained its popularity. Since, financial and banking applications require the best testing solution for checking the functionalities, securities, compatibility, performance, stress and load with minimal infrastructural cost, selenium and appium with a hybrid framework would be optimum choice. Keywords: Web testing with selenium tool;estimating testing effort;mobile automation;selenium variants;selenium framework;selenium for financial applications;challenges and mitigations in testing of banking applications;mobile automation;estimating testing effort