Selenium Web Driver

Selenium WebDriver is an automated testing framework used for the validation of websites (and web applications). It supports popular programming languages such as Python, C#, Java, Ruby, Java Script and more.

Selenium WebDriver was introduced in Selenium v2. As Selenium WebDriver communicates with a web browser using its corresponding browser driver, it does not require a component like Selenium RC Server (as in Selenium RC).

Selenium WebDriver for popular browsers can be downloaded from the links mentioned below:

BROWSER	DOWNLOAD LOCATION
Firefox	https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Chrome	http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
Internet Explorer	https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver
Microsoft Edge	https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/

In further sections of this Selenium WebDriver tutorial, we would look at using Selenium WebDriver with Python framework such as PyTest.