TA Basics: Selenium Webdrivers
Intro In one of my previous blog posts, I talked about a high level view of the whole test automation setup . It happens quiet often that people that begin with test automation forget to install the webdriver or are working with an older version of the webdriver. So in this post I wanted to go over this specific part and show some examples when testing local, with selenium-grid or via appium. What are webdrivers? In short I'd say: "Webdrivers are the bridge between your test automation framework and the browser. It can mimic user behavior on the browser so that your test script perform actions like a user would do". How does it work? The high level view of the flow is very straight forward. Your test scripts talk to Selenium, Selenium talks to the webdriver of your needs, the specific webdriver talks to the browser. So this means you need all components. The browser, the browser specific webdriver, selenium and a program language that is supported...