Webdriver

Eintrag zuletzt aktualisiert am: 27.01.2022

Das vom W3C standardisierte WebDriver-API ermöglicht die Fernsteuerung eines Webbrowsers. Das WebDriver-API wird z.B. von Selenium und Nightwatch für Browser-UI-Tests verwendet.

"WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. It provides a platform- and language-neutral wire protocol as a way for out-of-process programs to remotely instruct the behavior of web browsers.

Provided is a set of interfaces to discover and manipulate DOM elements in web documents and to control the behavior of a user agent. It is primarily intended to allow web authors to write tests that automate a user agent from a separate controlling process, but may also be used in such a way as to allow in-browser scripts to control a — possibly separate — browser."

Quelle: https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/