Awesome Selenium

A curated list of delightful Selenium resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Resources

• Tools
• CSS Regression Testing
• Driver
• Online Tools
• Cloud Services
• Web Scraping / Mining
• Specifications
• Blogs

Tools

Javascript

• selenium-webdriver - The official WebDriver JavaScript bindings from the Selenium project.
• WD - WebDriver/Selenium 2 node.js client.
• WebdriverIO - better implementation of WebDriver bindings with predefined 50+ actions.
• CasperJS - open source navigation scripting & testing utility.
• Zombie.js - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing.
• DalekJS - Automated cross browser testing.
• SlimerJS - A scriptable browser for Web developers.
• Nightwatch - efficient and straightforward Javascript End-to-End tests.
• yiewd - WD.js wrapper using latest Harmony generators! Get rid of the callback pyramid with yield.
• Karma - Brings a productive testing environment to developers.

Ruby

• Anemone - Anemone web-spider framework.
• Mechanize - automating interaction with websites.
• Spidr - web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely.
• cobweb - web crawler that can use resque to cluster crawls to quickly crawl extremely large sites.

Python

• mechanize - Stateful programmatic web browsing.

Java

• Conductor - Turbo-boosted Selenium framework that makes test writing a breeze.

CSS Regression Testing

• PhantomCSS - Visual/CSS regression testing with PhantomJS.
• WebdriverCSS - Regression testing tool for WebdriverIO.

Driver

• Firefox - Firefox driver is included in the selenium-server-standalone.jar available in the downloads.
• Chrome - ChromeDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol for Chromium.
• Internet Explorer - The InternetExplorerDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol.
• Safari - The SafariDriver is implemented as a Safari browser extension. The driver inverts the traditional client/server relationship and communicates with the WebDriver client using WebSockets.
• Opera - OperaDriver is a vendor-supported WebDriver implementation developed by Opera Software and volunteers that implements WebDriver API for Opera.
• Selendroid - Selendroid is based on the Android instrumentation framework.
• ios-driver - Test any IOS native, hybrid, or mobile web application using Selenium / WebDriver.
• Appium - Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver JSON wire protocol.

Online Tools

• CasperBox IDE - Simple online IDE for writing and running CasperJS scripts directly in the browser (built on top of CasperBox API).

Cloud Services

• Sauce Labs - Cross browser testing made awesome. Selenium testing, mobile testing, JS unit testing on 300+ OS/browser platforms. Get started for free.
• Browserstack - Test your website for cross browser compatibility on real browsers. Instant access to multiple desktop and mobile browsers. Get Free Trial.
• TestingBot - TestingBot provides easy cross browser testing with Selenium in the cloud.
• CasperBox - RESTful API for running CasperJS scripts online.

Web Scraping / Mining

• Scrapy - Python, mainly a scraper/miner - fast, well documented and, can be linked with Django Dynamic Scraper for nice mining deployments, or Scrapy Cloud for PaaS (server-less) deployment, works in terminal or an server stand-alone proces, can be used with Celery, built on top of Twisted.
• Snailer - Node.js Frontend test and audit framework. Extensible with plugins.
• Node-Crawler - Node.js Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery.

Specifications

• The WebDriver Wire Protocol - All implementations of WebDriver that communicate with the browser, or a RemoteWebDriver server shall use a common wire protocol.
• WebDriver - This specification defines the WebDriver API, a platform and language-neutral interface and associated wire protocol that allows programs or scripts to introspect into, and control the behaviour of, a web browser.

Blogs

• Official Selenium Blog - The official blog by SeleniumHQ.
• Elemental Selenium - A free, once-weekly e-mail on how to use Selenium like a Pro.

License

To the extent possible under law, Christian Bromann has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.