WebDriver

Selenium Webdriver

Webdriver is the latest version of Selenium. From Selenium 2.x version of series has Selenium WebDriver and RC also for backward compatibility. Webdriver has more libraries and features to work with Compared with RC. Like RC there is no need of selenium server to run if we are working with Webdriver. Webdriver libraries will directly interact with browser.

·         Webdriver is purely object oriented as compare to Selenium RC.

·         Interacts natively with browser where as Selenium RC is JavaScript based.

·         Webdriver supports for testing iPhone and Android applications but Selenium RC is not supported.

·         Implements HTMLUnit driver which makes test execution really fast.

·         Like RC supports for all the browsers and also supports for latest version of Firefox & IE.

·         But it is complex and a bit large API when compared to RC

·         While referring elements using xpath no need to append “xpath=\\” like in RC

To Develop Webdriver Scripts and Execute

                Same Configuration done for RC is sufficient like

                   Eclipse

                   Java Installation

                   Selenium 2.x version Libraries and these are added in Eclipse

Some of the Webdriver methods

get(“url”) – navigate to the url specified.

getTitle() - Get the title of the current browser.

getPageSource() - Get the source code of the current browser /Page .

close() - Closes the current browser.

quit() - Close all associated browsers.

getCurrentUrl() - Get the URL of the current webpage.

getWindowHandle()-Return an handle of the window that uniquely identifies it within this driver instance.

navigate("url")--allowing the driver to access the browser's history and to navigate to a given URL

navigate().back()--Move back to previous page in the browser's history.

navigate().forward()--Move to forward page in the browser's history

navigate().refresh()--Refresh the current page

switchTo()--Send future commands to a different frame or window / change focus to specified window / frame