Difference between Selenium RC and WebDriver

Question

What is the difference between Selenium RC and WebDriver?

Answer 1

Selenium RC

• Selenium Remote Control (RC) is used to write test cases in different Programming languages
• In Selenium IDE, we can run the recorded scripts only in Firefox browser, whereas, in Selenium RC, we can run the recorded script in any browser like IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera and so on
• It interacts with browsers using Selenium RC Server 

Selenium WebDriver:

• Selenium WebDriver is a tool used to automate testing for web application
• It allows us to execute tests against different browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE & Safari
• Selenium WebDriver eliminated the use of Selenium Server thus making it to work faster than RC