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Comparison of WebDriver-based solutions for test automation

Today, in an age of great popularity of test automation, we can observe a growing number of different frameworks which allow us to write scripts and programs that simulate human actions performed on the website under test. The most popular solution is Selenium WebDriver framework, which is compatible with the majority of common languages. Broad compatibility is a big advantage of Selenium especially in cases when we have to write some tests integrated to our application project, because no matter in which language we write the application, Selenium probably has an API for that language too. But there are also situations, like writing a standalone test suite, when we can decide which technology we’d most like to use. Taking into consideration this case, let me introduce to you a short comparison of three JDK-based technologies:

Ryszard Targoński

Ryszard is a test automation engineer with ~5 years of experience especially in WebDriver-based technologies. He is interested in test automation, performance testing and frontend technologies. At Allegro, he works since July 2014 in a team which delivers solutions for the finance sector.