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Install WebDrivers

Install WebDrivers - Selenium Tutorial

From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 1 (Selenium)

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Install WebDrivers

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So now in order to automate web browsers, we need to install some selenium webrivers. The Robot Framework SeleniumLibrary is a keyword library that sits on top of the base Selenium library and makes it easier to automate using plain English keywords. If you just use the base Selenium library, you have to write C-sharp or Java code or whatever. When we use Selenium library, we can use plain English keywords that then talk to the selenium code. Either way you do it, you need web drivers. And each browser we want to automate has its own web driver that we need to download onto our computer. Since I'm on Windows, I'm going to download a web driver for Edge and Chrome and Firefox. If you're on a mac and you're testing Safari, Safari doesn't actually need a web driver, it's built in. So the process for installing these web drivers is, I'm first going to create a folder on my C drive called bin, which is short for binary. And you can name it Fred or Sam or Web drivers or whatever you want…

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