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What is WebDriver ?

WebDriver is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP and HTTPS website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
This is commonly referred to as just "WebDriver" or sometimes as Selenium 2.
Selenium 1.0 + WebDriver = Selenium 2.0
  • WebDriver is designed in a simpler and more concise programming interface along with addressing some limitations in the Selenium-RC API.
  • WebDriver is a compact Object Oriented API when compared to Selenium1.0
  • It drives the browser much more effectively and over comes the limitations of Selenium 1.x which affected our functional test coverage, like the file upload or download, pop-ups and dialogs barrier
  • WebDriver overcomes the limitation of Selenium Rc's Single Host origin policy
  Origin policy : The essence of the Same Origin policy can be formulated as: windows can work in contexts of each other only if they are from same protocol://domain:port, or, shortly, from same origin.The “Same Origin” policy limits the access of one window to another.
The reason behind that is security. If you have blabla.com in one window and gmail.com in another one, then you’d not want a script from blabla.com to access or modify your mail or run actions in context of gmail on your behalf.
Note that the path part of the URL doesn’t matter anything.
These are from same origin:
  • http://site.com
  • http://site.com/
  • http://site.com/my/page.html
These come from another origin:

  • http://www.site.com (another domain)
  • http://site.org (another domain)
  • https://site.com (another protocol)
  • http://site.com:8080 (another port)

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