What is Webdriver?

A WebDriver drives a browser natively, just like you would, either locally or remotely, using a Selenium server. You can control a browser from another machine using WebDriver. It enables introspection and control of user agents. In this way, out-of-process programs can remotely instruct the behavior of web browsers using a platform and language-neutral wire protocol.

Using this specification, you can discover and manipulate the DOM, focusing on web browser compatibility. The purpose of this specification is primarily to automate the testing, but it can also be used to enable browser scripts to control the web browser.

The Selenium WebDriver consists of both language bindings and implementations of individual browser-controlling code. Usually, this is called WebDriver.

• The WebDriver has a simple and concise programming interface.
• WebDriver has a compact and easy-to-use object-oriented API.
• It runs the browser effectively.

Following are the benefits of Selenium WebDriver.

• Its simplicity makes it easy for automated testing tools to communicate with web content. You can find commands that simplify tasks like entering text and clicking elements.
• You can extend the WebDriver protocol to add functionality not currently included in the ECMAScript standard. It allows browsers to support the automation of new platform features and will enable vendors to expose functionality specific to their browsers.
• Selenium is compatible with different programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, and more, allowing testers to perform web automation in any programming language as per their choice.