/awesome-selenium

A curated list of delightful Selenium resources.

Awesome Selenium

A curated list of delightful Selenium resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Resources

Tools

Javascript

  • selenium-webdriver - The official WebDriver JavaScript bindings from the Selenium project
  • WD - WebDriver/Selenium 2 node.js client
  • WebdriverIO - better implementation of WebDriver bindings with predefined 50+ actions
  • CasperJS - open source navigation scripting & testing utility
  • Zombie.js - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing
  • DalekJS - Automated cross browser testing
  • SlimerJS - A scriptable browser for Web developers
  • Nightwatch - efficient and straightforward Javascript End-to-End tests
  • yiewd - WD.js wrapper using latest Harmony generators! Get rid of the callback pyramid with yield
  • Karma - Brings a productive testing environment to developers.

Ruby

  • Anemone - Anemone web-spider framework
  • Mechanize - automating interaction with websites
  • Spidr - web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely
  • cobweb - web crawler that can use resque to cluster crawls to quickly crawl extremely large sites

Python

  • mechanize - Stateful programmatic web browsing

CSS Regression Testing

Driver

  • Firefox - Firefox driver is included in the selenium-server-stanalone.jar available in the downloads.
  • Chrome - ChromeDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol for Chromium.
  • Internet Explorer - The InternetExplorerDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol.
  • Safari - The SafariDriver is implemented as a Safari browser extension. The driver inverts the traditional client/server relationship and communicates with the WebDriver client using WebSockets.
  • Opera - OperaDriver is a vendor-supported WebDriver implementation developed by Opera Software and volunteers that implements WebDriver API for Opera.
  • Selendroid - Selendroid is based on the Android instrumentation framework.
  • ios-driver - Test any IOS native, hybrid, or mobile web application using Selenium / WebDriver.
  • Appium - Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver JSON wire protocol.

Online Tools

  • CasperBox IDE - Simple online IDE for writing and running CasperJS scripts directly in the browser (built on top of CasperBox API)

Cloud Services

  • Sauce Labs - Cross browser testing made awesome. Selenium testing, mobile testing, JS unit testing on 300+ OS/browser platforms. Get started for free.
  • Browserstack - Test your website for cross browser compatibility on real browsers. Instant access to multiple desktop and mobile browsers. Get Free Trial.
  • TestingBot - TestingBot provides easy cross browser testing with Selenium in the cloud.
  • CasperBox - RESTful API for running CasperJS scripts online

Web Scraping / Mining

  • Scrapy - Python, mainly a scraper/miner - fast, well documented and, can be linked with Django Dynamic Scraper for nice mining deployments, or Scrapy Cloud for PaaS (server-less) deployment, works in terminal or an server stand-alone proces, can be used with Celery, built on top of Twisted
  • Snailer - Node.js Frontend test and audit framework. Extensible with plugins.
  • Node-Crawler - Node.js Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery

Specifications

  • The WebDriver Wire Protocol - All implementations of WebDriver that communicate with the browser, or a RemoteWebDriver server shall use a common wire protocol.
  • WebDriver - This specification defines the WebDriver API, a platform and language-neutral interface and associated wire protocol that allows programs or scripts to introspect into, and control the behaviour of, a web browser.

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