Can someone please explain the Selenium Webdriver Architecture

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May 13, 2019 in Selenium by Keshav
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Hey Keshav, there are four basic components of WebDriver Architecture:

  1. Selenium Language Bindings: Selenium developers have built language bindings/Selenium Client Libraries in order to support multiple languages. For instance, if you want to use the browser driver in java, use the java bindings. All the supported language bindings can be downloaded from the official website (https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/#client-drivers) of Selenium.

  2. JSON Wire Protocol: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard for exchanging data on web. It supports data structures like object and array. So, it is easy to write and read data from JSON. JSON Wire Protocol provides a transport mechanism to transfer data between a server and a client. JSON Wire Protocol serves as an industry standard for various REST web services.

  3. Browser Drivers: Selenium uses drivers, specific to each browser in order to establish a secure connection with the browser without revealing the internal logic of browser's functionality. The browser driver is also specific to the language used for automation such as Java, C#, etc. When we execute a test script using WebDriver, the following operations are performed internally:

    • HTTP request is generated and sent to the browser driver for each Selenium command.

    • The driver receives the HTTP request through HTTP server.

    • HTTP Server decides all the steps to perform instructions which are executed on browser.

    • Execution status is sent back to HTTP Server which is subsequently sent back to automation script.

  4. Real Browsers: Browsers supported by Selenium WebDriver:

    • Internet Explorer

    • Mozilla Firefox

    • Google Chrome

    • Safari

answered May 14, 2019 by Pratibha
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