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DevDave
DevDave

Reputation: 6908

Browser emulation - Which Selenium do I need?

I am struggling to get a RemoteWebDriver to work.

I wondered whether I needed Selenium RC, so I installed that with Nuget and noticed that DefaultSelenium takes a path to the browser as a parameter.

I am getting a bit overwhelmed with all the different libraries available for Selenium - but what I want is to be able to run against a host of browsers (android/chrome/firefox, etc) without those browsers necessarily existing on the machine that Selenium is running on.

Is that possible? And if so, which Selenium libraries would I need (I am using VS2012 and C#) to acheive this?

I was trying to achieve this with RemoteWebDriver with a range of different DesiredCapabilites, rather than using ChromeDriver, FirefoxDriver, etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1511

Answers (2)

Arran
Arran

Reputation: 25076

You should, especially considering this is a new project, 100% absolutely positively use the WebDriver API. So you only need the WebDriver NuGet package:

http://www.nuget.org/packages/Selenium.WebDriver/

You will need the IEDriver package too, if you intend to test against IE, and the same for Chrome/Safari etc.

I say this because the WebDriver is constantly being developed on, maintained, and improved. It has a better cleaner and nicer API, and will be more stable in the long run.

RC is deprecated. Although I believe the developer's intend to still fix any bugs, new features and improvements won't be happening.

Upvotes: 1

Vladimir Bozic
Vladimir Bozic

Reputation: 444

Try this has some good answers : Run Selenium tests in multiple browsers one after another from C# NUnit. I personal use IWebDriver and Selenium RC and test it like that. Cause i have a lot of tests and testing in every browser is to much for me.

Upvotes: 0

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