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Which browsers are supported by Selenium?
It supports a number of browsers (Google Chrome 12+, Internet Explorer 7,8,9,10, Safari 5.1+, Opera 11.5, Firefox 3+) and operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix). Selenium also provides compatibility with different programming languages – C#, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP.
How does Selenium handle multiple browsers?
Steps to execute:
- Get the handle of the parent window using the command: String parentWindowHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
- Print the window handle of the parent window.
- Find the element on the web page using an ID which is an element locator.
- Open multiple child windows.
- Iterate through child windows.
Is API testing possible with selenium?
Selenium is not a tool for API testing Well of course, if you have a user interface base or custom framework which is built around Selenium web browser you could easily extend that framework to include API testing, but you need a different tool or library for doing that.
What is meant by Selenium WebDriver?
Key Takeaways Selenium WebDriver is a component of the Selenium family. Selenium WebDriver is a set of APIs, which makes the interaction and actions on the browser very easy and quick. Selenium WebDriver provides quite a few unique features, such as it can automate dynamic web pages.
What is selenium chrome driver?
But selenium cannot do all these tasks on its own. It needs some help from the browser side as well, to perform all these tasks. So, in that sense, chrome driver is what helps selenium perform these actions on Chrome browser. In more technical terms, ChromeDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver’s wire protocol for Chrome.
What is selenium JAR file?
Selenium Standalone server is a java jar file used to start the Selenium server. It is a smart proxy server that allows Selenium tests to route commands to remote web browser instances. The aim is to provide an easy way to run tests in parallel on multiple machines.