Selenium WebDriver Tutorial For Beginners | What Is Selenium WebDriver | Selenium Tutorial | Edureka
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This Selenium WebDriver tutorial talks about the drawbacks of Selenium RC and what was the need for Selenium WebDriver. It goes into the details of the avantages that WebDriver has over RC and how it replaced RC for automation testing. This tutorial will also tell you how WebDriver works and what are the different browser drivers you can use for testing. Watch the video to get a demonstration on how to locate various elements/ objects on the browser and how operations can be performed on those browser elements/ objects by writing Java code in Eclipse IDE. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph3NJm4Z7m4
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Commands To Locate Web Elements
B y N a m e B y C l a s s N ame B y Ta g N a m e B y L i n k Tex tB y I D
This attribute is used to locate elements with its location
Syntax:-
driver.findElement(By.xpath(“xxx”));
Example:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(“.//*[@id=‘Email’]”)).sendKeys(abc@dureka.co);
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Editor's Notes
- #7: Well, there are multiple reasons. Here are few in no particular order Webdriver offers a cleaner API than selenium RC. The most common example is you have selenium.type and selenium.typeKeys, both does the same thing in effect. Webdriver offers just one method sendKeys for all type related action. In short you can say, webdriver classes are better organized? Selenium works using javascript injection. If you have worked with selenium for sometime, then you must be aware of the same origin policy issues and limitations of javascript injection. Webdriver overcomes this by using a driver for each browser. For firefox this means, webdriver attaches itself to browser as an addon, for IE it uses automation atoms and for chrome and opera it uses the chrome driver. Due to the above mentioned reason, webdriver tests are faster than Selenium Its much easier to extend webdriver compared to selenium. Webdriver provides extendable action classes which you can combine and create your own customized actions. Webdriver can support testing in mobile devices such as Iphone, ipad and android phones and tablets. Last but not at all the least, there is no development work happening in selenium project now. Whatever is available now, will continue to be supported but no new methods or enhancements are happening for selenium. Selenium and webdriver projects were merged some years back and became Selenium 2.0 You can find additional details about webdriver here and reason for merger here
- #8: Well, there are multiple reasons. Here are few in no particular order Webdriver offers a cleaner API than selenium RC. The most common example is you have selenium.type and selenium.typeKeys, both does the same thing in effect. Webdriver offers just one method sendKeys for all type related action. In short you can say, webdriver classes are better organized? Selenium works using javascript injection. If you have worked with selenium for sometime, then you must be aware of the same origin policy issues and limitations of javascript injection. Webdriver overcomes this by using a driver for each browser. For firefox this means, webdriver attaches itself to browser as an addon, for IE it uses automation atoms and for chrome and opera it uses the chrome driver. Due to the above mentioned reason, webdriver tests are faster than Selenium Its much easier to extend webdriver compared to selenium. Webdriver provides extendable action classes which you can combine and create your own customized actions. Webdriver can support testing in mobile devices such as Iphone, ipad and android phones and tablets. Last but not at all the least, there is no development work happening in selenium project now. Whatever is available now, will continue to be supported but no new methods or enhancements are happening for selenium. Selenium and webdriver projects were merged some years back and became Selenium 2.0 You can find additional details about webdriver here and reason for merger here
- #9: Selenium RC injects javascript function into browsers when the web page is loaded. Selenium WebDriver drives the browser using browser's built-in support.
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