Selenium WebDriver Characteristics

Characteristics of Selenium WebDriver

Some of the essential characteristics of Selenium WebDriver are as follows:

Multiple Operating System Support

Selenium Webdriver supports multiple operating systems like:

• Desktop OS: Window, Linux, and macOS
• Mobile OS:  iOS, Android

Multiple Browser Support:

• WebDriver supports several ranges of web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and many more.
• It also helps some of the non-conventional or rare browsers like the HTML Unit.

Multiple Languages Support

• Selenium WebDriver supports most of the commonly used programming languages like Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Pearl, and Python.
• So, the user can choose any one of the supported programming languages based on his/her interest and knowledge and start writing their test scripts in the selected programming language.

Speed: 

• WebDriver supports the secure application because it doesn't require any intermediate server to communicate with the browser.
• WebDriver execution is faster as compared to other tools of Selenium Suite.

Commands:

The commands are used to implement the actions on the browser in Selenium WebDriver.

To launch a browser in WebDriver, following commands are used:

Browsers	Commands
Firefox browser	WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
Microsoft edge browser	WebDriver driver=new EdgeDriver();
Chrome browser	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
Internet Explorer browser	WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

Selenium WebDriver-Methods and Classes

• WebDriver implements multiple solutions while working with some significant challenges at the time of automation testing.
• WebDriver also supports window handling, which includes complex types of web elements such as checkboxes, dropdowns, mouse and keyboard control, alerts through dynamic finders, and file uploading.