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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide
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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

by Pinakin Chaubal
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding Selenium RC

Selenium RC is a popular UI automation library for automating browsers. Selenium RC uses a generic form of JavaScript called Selenium Core to perform automation. However, this should comply with a security policy called the same-origin policy. The same-origin policy is a security measure that prevents website scripts from accessing the scripts of other websites. For example, JavaScript present on Google cannot access or communicate with JavaScript present on Yahoo. Three things are checked for the same-origin policy: the protocol, domain, and port. If these three things match, then only the request can be said as being one from the same domain.

Selenium Core was introduced by Jason Higgins; It was nothing but a JavaScript ...
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