What is WebDriver binaries and why they used in Selenium?
I came to know recently that using 'WebDriver Binaries' is a good practice in Automation projects. But not sure about term 'Binary' with webDriver.
Did some google searches also and got quite a lot posts around how to manage binaries; but not on why to use.
So it will be great if someone can guide me whats this with its benefits.
selenium selenium-webdriver webdriver
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
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I came to know recently that using 'WebDriver Binaries' is a good practice in Automation projects. But not sure about term 'Binary' with webDriver.
Did some google searches also and got quite a lot posts around how to manage binaries; but not on why to use.
So it will be great if someone can guide me whats this with its benefits.
selenium selenium-webdriver webdriver
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
Did you use selenium in your automation project, or using other automation tool? If you use selenium, you can't avoid to useWebDriver binaryonly except you use earlier version of selenium and Firefox ( For earlier selenium and firefox, the webdriver for firefox is an extension and integrated into selenium jar, the extension will be installed into firefox automatically by selenium)
– yong
Nov 13 '18 at 7:55
Can you share code example of how you're using Selenium without WebDriver?
– Andersson
Nov 13 '18 at 8:23
HI Yong and Andersson: I'm using webDriver only but not sure/aware of term 'Binary'..may be question needs to be reformed I've edited it..:(
– saTya
Nov 13 '18 at 10:43
1
binary = binary executable file such as chromedriver or geckodriver
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:47
add a comment |
I came to know recently that using 'WebDriver Binaries' is a good practice in Automation projects. But not sure about term 'Binary' with webDriver.
Did some google searches also and got quite a lot posts around how to manage binaries; but not on why to use.
So it will be great if someone can guide me whats this with its benefits.
selenium selenium-webdriver webdriver
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
I came to know recently that using 'WebDriver Binaries' is a good practice in Automation projects. But not sure about term 'Binary' with webDriver.
Did some google searches also and got quite a lot posts around how to manage binaries; but not on why to use.
So it will be great if someone can guide me whats this with its benefits.
selenium selenium-webdriver webdriver
selenium selenium-webdriver webdriver
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:59
saTya
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
asked Nov 13 '18 at 7:37
saTyasaTya
399
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Did you use selenium in your automation project, or using other automation tool? If you use selenium, you can't avoid to useWebDriver binaryonly except you use earlier version of selenium and Firefox ( For earlier selenium and firefox, the webdriver for firefox is an extension and integrated into selenium jar, the extension will be installed into firefox automatically by selenium)
– yong
Nov 13 '18 at 7:55
Can you share code example of how you're using Selenium without WebDriver?
– Andersson
Nov 13 '18 at 8:23
HI Yong and Andersson: I'm using webDriver only but not sure/aware of term 'Binary'..may be question needs to be reformed I've edited it..:(
– saTya
Nov 13 '18 at 10:43
1
binary = binary executable file such as chromedriver or geckodriver
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:47
add a comment |
Did you use selenium in your automation project, or using other automation tool? If you use selenium, you can't avoid to useWebDriver binaryonly except you use earlier version of selenium and Firefox ( For earlier selenium and firefox, the webdriver for firefox is an extension and integrated into selenium jar, the extension will be installed into firefox automatically by selenium)
– yong
Nov 13 '18 at 7:55
Can you share code example of how you're using Selenium without WebDriver?
– Andersson
Nov 13 '18 at 8:23
HI Yong and Andersson: I'm using webDriver only but not sure/aware of term 'Binary'..may be question needs to be reformed I've edited it..:(
– saTya
Nov 13 '18 at 10:43
1
binary = binary executable file such as chromedriver or geckodriver
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:47
Did you use selenium in your automation project, or using other automation tool? If you use selenium, you can't avoid to use
WebDriver binary only except you use earlier version of selenium and Firefox ( For earlier selenium and firefox, the webdriver for firefox is an extension and integrated into selenium jar, the extension will be installed into firefox automatically by selenium)– yong
Nov 13 '18 at 7:55
Did you use selenium in your automation project, or using other automation tool? If you use selenium, you can't avoid to use
WebDriver binary only except you use earlier version of selenium and Firefox ( For earlier selenium and firefox, the webdriver for firefox is an extension and integrated into selenium jar, the extension will be installed into firefox automatically by selenium)– yong
Nov 13 '18 at 7:55
Can you share code example of how you're using Selenium without WebDriver?
– Andersson
Nov 13 '18 at 8:23
Can you share code example of how you're using Selenium without WebDriver?
– Andersson
Nov 13 '18 at 8:23
HI Yong and Andersson: I'm using webDriver only but not sure/aware of term 'Binary'..may be question needs to be reformed I've edited it..:(
– saTya
Nov 13 '18 at 10:43
HI Yong and Andersson: I'm using webDriver only but not sure/aware of term 'Binary'..may be question needs to be reformed I've edited it..:(
– saTya
Nov 13 '18 at 10:43
1
1
binary = binary executable file such as chromedriver or geckodriver
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:47
binary = binary executable file such as chromedriver or geckodriver
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:47
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When you say WebDriver binaries, I am assuming that you are talking about the WebDriver bindings or the libraries. With out adding the WebDriver binding's into your project you can't really do anything with the WebDriver interface, like you can't invoke any browser or drive any website. Either you can manually add them into your project build path or you can use any dependency management tool like Maven for getting all the WebDriver libraries into your project. You can then use them.
You can either just add the standalone server file, which would do the same job as WebdDriver bindings.
There are Third Party Driver's which we use for each of the bowser's like, chrome - chromedriver.exe, firefox - geckodriver.exe ..etc ---These are also called as WebDriver binarie's(mostly refereed as driver files).
answered Nov 13 '18 at 8:50
KaushikKaushik
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binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:46
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When you say WebDriver binaries, I am assuming that you are talking about the WebDriver bindings or the libraries. With out adding the WebDriver binding's into your project you can't really do anything with the WebDriver interface, like you can't invoke any browser or drive any website. Either you can manually add them into your project build path or you can use any dependency management tool like Maven for getting all the WebDriver libraries into your project. You can then use them.
You can either just add the standalone server file, which would do the same job as WebdDriver bindings.
There are Third Party Driver's which we use for each of the bowser's like, chrome - chromedriver.exe, firefox - geckodriver.exe ..etc ---These are also called as WebDriver binarie's(mostly refereed as driver files).
answered Nov 13 '18 at 8:50
KaushikKaushik
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binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:46
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When you say WebDriver binaries, I am assuming that you are talking about the WebDriver bindings or the libraries. With out adding the WebDriver binding's into your project you can't really do anything with the WebDriver interface, like you can't invoke any browser or drive any website. Either you can manually add them into your project build path or you can use any dependency management tool like Maven for getting all the WebDriver libraries into your project. You can then use them.
You can either just add the standalone server file, which would do the same job as WebdDriver bindings.
There are Third Party Driver's which we use for each of the bowser's like, chrome - chromedriver.exe, firefox - geckodriver.exe ..etc ---These are also called as WebDriver binarie's(mostly refereed as driver files).
answered Nov 13 '18 at 8:50
KaushikKaushik
518
binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:46
add a comment |
When you say WebDriver binaries, I am assuming that you are talking about the WebDriver bindings or the libraries. With out adding the WebDriver binding's into your project you can't really do anything with the WebDriver interface, like you can't invoke any browser or drive any website. Either you can manually add them into your project build path or you can use any dependency management tool like Maven for getting all the WebDriver libraries into your project. You can then use them.
You can either just add the standalone server file, which would do the same job as WebdDriver bindings.
There are Third Party Driver's which we use for each of the bowser's like, chrome - chromedriver.exe, firefox - geckodriver.exe ..etc ---These are also called as WebDriver binarie's(mostly refereed as driver files).
answered Nov 13 '18 at 8:50
KaushikKaushik
518
When you say WebDriver binaries, I am assuming that you are talking about the WebDriver bindings or the libraries. With out adding the WebDriver binding's into your project you can't really do anything with the WebDriver interface, like you can't invoke any browser or drive any website. Either you can manually add them into your project build path or you can use any dependency management tool like Maven for getting all the WebDriver libraries into your project. You can then use them.
You can either just add the standalone server file, which would do the same job as WebdDriver bindings.
There are Third Party Driver's which we use for each of the bowser's like, chrome - chromedriver.exe, firefox - geckodriver.exe ..etc ---These are also called as WebDriver binarie's(mostly refereed as driver files).
answered Nov 13 '18 at 8:50
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binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
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binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
– Corey Goldberg
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binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
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binaries refers to chromedriver/geckodriver/etc
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Did you use selenium in your automation project, or using other automation tool? If you use selenium, you can't avoid to use
WebDriver binaryonly except you use earlier version of selenium and Firefox ( For earlier selenium and firefox, the webdriver for firefox is an extension and integrated into selenium jar, the extension will be installed into firefox automatically by selenium)– yong
Nov 13 '18 at 7:55
Can you share code example of how you're using Selenium without WebDriver?
– Andersson
Nov 13 '18 at 8:23
HI Yong and Andersson: I'm using webDriver only but not sure/aware of term 'Binary'..may be question needs to be reformed I've edited it..:(
– saTya
Nov 13 '18 at 10:43
1
binary = binary executable file such as chromedriver or geckodriver
– Corey Goldberg
Nov 13 '18 at 22:47