Tuesday 14 April 2015

What is Watir? and What is Watir-Webdriver?

Watir: (Web Application Testing iRuby, pronounced water), is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It drives Internet ExplorerFirefoxChromeOpera and Safari, and is available as a RubyGems gem. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers.

Watir-Webdriver:
Watir-webdriver is a modern version of the Watir API based on Selenium. Selenium 2.0 (selenium-webdriver) aims to be the reference implementation of the WebDriver specification. In Ruby, Jari Bakken has implemented the Watir API as a wrapper around the Selenium 2.0 API. Not only is Watir-webdriver derived from Selenium 2.0, it is also built from the HTML specification, so Watir-webdriver should always be compatible with existing W3C specifications.

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