Introduction WebDriver , difference between selenium RC, selenium WebDriver

Introduction to Selenium WebDriver

WebDriver is a selenium libraries which is developed in java and included from Selenium Ver. 2.0 onwards.

Not like the earlier version of Selenium RC , WebDriver API will directly interact with the Respective browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome…etc

Selenium WebDriver will do the same as RC (Remote Control) will do, these are additional libraries which are added into Selenium Ver. So

Selenium 1.0 (RC Libraries) + WebDriver (Libraries) + Grid Libraries = Selenium 2.0

• WebDriver is more simpler than RC and it over comes some of the limitations of RC like file upload or download, pop-ups and dialogs barrier
• WebDriver is a pure Object Oriented Programming language developed in java where as RC is developed in JavaScript
• Selenium RC to execute Server need to run first , the selenium program will interact with Selenium Server and Server will interact with Browser like FF, IE..etc,   where as webdriver will directly interacts with Browser

WebDriver is an interface and we can use the below classes to develop the scripts,

AndroidDriver, ChromeDriver, EventFiringWebDriver, FirefoxDriver, HtmlUnitDriver, InternetExplorerDriver, IPhoneDriver, PhantomJSDriver, RemoteWebDriver, SafariDriver

Ex: The below Webdriver program uses FirefoxDriver API to open any given URL

public class Sample

{

                public static void main(String args[ ])

   {

 FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

Driver.get(“http://www.google.com”);

   }

}

In the above code, object is created for FirefoxDriver class and using the method get(url) to pen the given url in the firefox browser