selenium-webdriver Getting started with selenium-webdriver What is Selenium WebDriver ?
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Selenium is a set of tools designed to automate browsers. It is commonly used for web application tests across multiple platforms. There are a few tools available under the Selenium umbrella, such as Selenium WebDriver(ex-Selenium RC), Selenium IDE and Selenium Grid.
WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables you to manipulate DOM elements in web pages, as well as to command the behaviour of user agents. This interface provides a language-neutral wire protocol which has been implemented for various platforms such as:
- GeckoDriver (Mozilla Firefox)
- ChromeDriver (Google Chrome)
- SafariDriver (Apple Safari)
- InternetExplorerDriver (MS InternetExplorer)
- MicrosoftWebDriver, or EdgeDriver (MS Edge)
- OperaChromiumDriver (Opera browser)
as well as other implementations:
- EventFiringWebDriver
- HtmlUnitDriver
- PhantomJSDriver
- RemoteWebDriver
Selenium WebDriver is one of the Selenium tools which provides Object Oriented APIs in a variety of languages to allow for more control and the application of standard software development practices. To accurately simulate the way that a user will interact with a web application, it uses "Native OS Level Events" as oppose to "Synthesized JavaScript events".
Links to refer:
- http://www.seleniumhq.org/
- http://www.aosabook.org/en/selenium.html
- https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/
