Selenium IDE ou WebDriver

Didfference between Selenium IDE and Webdriver:

Selenium IDE is only works in Mozilla browser.

Selenium webdriver supports with all browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc.

Selenium IDE supports Record and playback.

Selenium webdriver doesn’t supports Record and playback

Selenium IDE Doesn’t required to start server before executing the test script.

Selenium webdriver Doesn’t required to start server before executing the test script.

Selenium IDE is a GUI Plug-in

Selenium webdriver actual core API which has binding in a range of languages.

Selenium IDE Core engine is Javascript based

Selenium webdriver Interacts natively with browser application.

Selenium IDE Very simple to use as it is record & playback.

Selenium webdriver As compared to RC, it is bit complex and large API.

Selenium IDE is not object oriented.

Selenium webdriver API’s are entirely Object oriented.

Selenium IDE doesn’t supports of moving mouse cursors.

Selenium webdriver supports of moving mouse cursors.

Selenium IDE Need to append full xpath with ‘xpath=\\\\’ syntax.

Selenium webdriver No need to append full xpath with ‘xpath=\\\\’ syntax.

Selenium IDE does not supports listeners.

Selenium webdriver supports the implementation of listeners.

Selenium IDE does not support to test iphone/Android applications.

Selenium webdriver support to test iphone/Android applications.

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