Selenium WebDriver Training

What is Selenium Webdriver?

Webdriver is known to be the latest version of Selenium i.e. Selenium 2.x. More powerful than the primitive Selenium rc 1.x and comes with lots and lots of libraries and new features to work with. It’s not mandatory to know Selenium RC to work with Webdriver. You can directly learn webdriver and start working on it. There is no need of selenium server if you are working with Webdriver API

What makes it different from Selenium RC?

• More object oriented as compare to Selenium RC.
• Has wider range of APIs
• Interacts natively with browser where as Selenium RC is Javascript based.
• Can test Iphone and Andriod based application which is not supported by Selenium RC.
• Implements HTMLUnit driver which makes test execution really fast.
• Unlike Selenium RC there is no server in Webdriver.
• Supports almost all lastest web browsers where as Selenium RC does not works on latest versions on Firefox and IE.

WebDriver Architecture