What is Selenium Web Driver?

Selenium Web Driver is a software testing tool which is designed to overcome some limitations in Selenium Remote Control for Web Application Testing.Selenium Web Driver is also called as Selenium 2 which is using for Web Application and Mobile App testing in this generation.

Selenium Webdriver supports all the browsers in order to run our test suite or test cases with following programming languages,Those are

1.C3#

2.Java

3.PHP

4.Python

5.Ruby

6..Net

7.Perl

• Selenium Webdriver directly interacting with web browsers in order to increase fast test execution for web applications.
• Selenium Web driver not require any Selenium server in order to run the test because server is configured in built in selenium webdriver
• Selenium webdriver supports mobile application testing.
• Selenium webdriver supports above programming languages to create test scripts in Junit,TestNG or Ant any other frameworks.Selenium Web Driver controls all the browsers very fastly and interact itself.

Comparing to Selenium Webdriver with Selenium RC selenium web driver is best upon RC,As like Selenium RC requires Server in order interact with Browsers.Selenium RC supports only Web browser testing so there is no scope of Mobile App testing,Selenium RC supports all the browsers but if browsers are upgraded then it will cause a problem in running test scripts.

IN present world mostly digital world is increasing every one is developing mobile apps in order to better testing selenium Web driver is good for Software Testing tools as a free open source.