Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver

© Courtney Zhan, Edited by Zhimin Zhan 2024

Z. Zhan (ed.)Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0023-8_1

1. Introduction

Courtney Zhan¹  

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Fitzgibbon, QLD, Australia

 

Selenium WebDriver is a free and open-source library for automating web applications. Basically, you can use it to drive web apps in a browser and for testing purposes.

Selenium WebDriver

Selenium WebDriver is a merger of Selenium v1 and another automation framework called WebDriver led by Simon Stewart at Google. (Simon later joined Facebook and Apple.) Selenium 2.0 was released in July 2011. We use “Selenium,” “WebDriver,” and “Selenium WebDriver” interchangeably in this book. Selenium v3 and v4 were released in October of 2016 and October of 2021, respectively. ...