Starting with Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver - Introduction & Features
How Selenium WebDriver works?
Selenium WebDriver Test Cases
Running tests on Firefox, IE, Chrome
What are Web Elements?
Selenium WebDriver Locating Strategies
Web Element Inspecting Tools for different browsers
Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver was released as part of Selenium 2.0
WebDriver is designed in a simpler and better way as required for modern web applications
WebDriver uses browser native commands to drive the browser which is very robust
Overcomes following main Selenium 1.0 or Selenium RC limitations
Issues when working with pop-ups, dialogs, multiple browsers, file upload and download
WebDriver is a more Object Oriented when compared to Selenium 1.0. You can work with web elements, windows, dialogs by creating objects for them.
It supports/runs old Selenium RC code
You can use multiple programming languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python
It supports multiple browsers and multiple operating systems
How Selenium WebDriver works?
When a class implements an interface, it provides the methods defined in that interface. With that, we can use same method names with different browsers.
WebDeiver Interface {
findElement()
getTitle()
close()
getCurrentUrl()
}
FirefoxDriver : WebDriver Interface
InternetExplorerDriver : WebDriver Interface
ChromeDriver : WebDriver Interface
Selenium WebDriver & different Drivers
WebDriver is the name of the key interface against which tests should be written, but there are several implementations
To see methods defined in the WebDriver interface and different implementations, go to http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.html