Chapter 3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver
In this chapter, we will take a look at the history of Selenium WebDriver from its inception to where it currently is. We will also take a look at the architecture of Selenium WebDriver so that we can get a better understanding of how all the commands work. This will help us to take good advantage of the tool and at the same time will help us to construct the right automation framework and use the maximum features of the tool. We will finish the chapter by making sure that we have understood the history of Selenium WebDriver and we will also have a working understanding of how Selenium WebDriver is built.
In this chapter, we will:
- Learn the history of Selenium WebDriver
- Learn about Selenium Architecture
- Set up IDE with IntelliJ IDEA project for Selenium WebDriver
- Set up Eclipse IDE with Java project for Selenium WebDriver and TestNG
So let's get on with it.
In this chapter, we will be writing our tests in Java. This is due to the popularity...
