Webdriver Backed Selenium: use RC and WebDriver together
Today we have added full support for Webdriver-backed Selenium, which allows you to use the two API’s together in a single test.
By using this feature, it will be easier for you to migrate your existing Selenium RC tests to the new WebDriver format.
Here’s a list of reasons on why you should consider start using WebDriver:
- Better and more consistent API
- Improved emulation of user interactions. WebDriver uses native events in order to interact with a web page, where possible.
- Support by the major browser vendors. Chrome, FireFox and Opera are all active contributors in WebDriver’s development
- Faster, less error-prone tests
Even though not all RC commands are supported, you can now run most of your RC tests on a WebDriver instance inside our grid.
An example of using the two API’s together in Ruby would be:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require 'testingbot'
gem "selenium-client"
gem "selenium-webdriver"
require "selenium-webdriver"
require "selenium/client"
selenium = Selenium::Client::Driver.new :host => "hub.testingbot.com",
:port => 4444,
:url => "https://www.facebook.com",
:browser => "*webdriver"
caps = {
:browserName => "iexplore",
:platform => "WINDOWS"
}
urlhub = "http://API_KEY:API_SECRET@hub.testingbot.com:4444/wd/hub"
client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 120
@webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => urlhub, :desired_capabilities => caps, :http_client => client
selenium.start :driver => @webdriver
puts @webdriver.title == selenium.title # WebDriver and RC together
selenium.open "/" # RC
@webdriver.quit # WebDriver
This test will show up in our member area with screenshots/video and a list of steps from both RC and WebDriver.
