# Awesome Selenium

> A curated list of delightful Selenium resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

## Resources

- Tools
- CSS Regression Testing
- Containers
- Driver
- Desktop Tools
- Selenium Grid
- Cloud Services
- Device Farms
- 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.
- Zombie.js - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing.
- SlimerJS - A scriptable browser for Web developers.
- Nightwatch - efficient and straightforward Javascript End-to-End tests.
- Karma - Brings a productive testing environment to developers for unit testing (mostly AngularJS).
- Protractor - Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS applications.
- CodeceptJS - Modern Era Acceptance Testing Framework for NodeJS.

#### Ruby

- Selenium with Ruby - Selenium Ruby bindings
- Watir - Automated testing that doesn’t hurt
- 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.
- Capybara - an integration testing tool for rack based web applications. It simulates how a user would interact with a website.

#### PHP

- Facebook WebDriver - A PHP client for webdriver.
- Selenium Setup - A tool for PHP developers to start their own Selenium server.
- Steward - A test runner integrating php-webdriver with PHPUnit.

#### Python

- Selenium with Python - Selenium Python bindings
- Helium - Helium makes Selenium easier and faster to use
- Selene - Selenide-inspired concise and readable automated test framework, supports Ajax well like Selenide.
- mechanize - Stateful programmatic web browsing.
- Robot - Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and ATDD.
- behave-webdriver behavior driven testing with Selenium and Python.

#### Java

- Selenium with Java - Selenium Java bindings
- Conductor - Turbo-boosted Selenium framework that makes test writing a breeze.
- darcy - Page object framework for structured, maintainable automation.
- Selenide - A framework for writing easy-to-read and easy-to-maintain automated tests using a Fluent API. Selenide has a magic trick that resolves most problems with Ajax and timeouts.
- Galen Framework - Automated testing of look and feel for your responsive websites.
- Serenity - It is an open source library for writing better quality automated acceptance tests faster. (Formerly Thucydides).
- seleniumQuery - jQuery-like cross-driver interface in Java for WebDriver. Designed as a thin layer, it can be used alone or on top of your favorite framework just to make some cases (e.g. asserting/waiting) simpler when needed.
- WebDriverManager - Automatic management of Selenium WebDriver binaries.
- Lightning - Lightweight and lightning fast WebDriver client.

#### C

- Selenium with C# - Selenium C# bindings
- Atata - Automated web testing full featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
- Strontium - A .NET implementation (but outdated) for Selenium/WebDriver (Remote) Server

#### Groovy

- Geb - It can be used for scripting, scraping and general automation — or equally as a functional/web/acceptance testing solution via integration with testing frameworks such as Spock, JUnit & TestNG.

#### Dart

- dart.webdriver - Provides WebDriver bindings for Dart. These use the WebDriver JSON interface, and as such, require the use of the WebDriver remote server.

### CSS Regression Testing

- WebdriverCSS - Regression testing tool for WebdriverIO (currently deprecated, please use wdio-screenshot for the time being).

### Containers

#### Docker

- elgalu/docker-selenium - Selenium in Docker with Chrome & Firefox plus video recording support.
- Ggr - A lightweight load balancer used to create big Selenium clusters.
- SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium - Docker images for Selenium Standalone Server, Hub, and Node configurations with Chrome and Firefox.
- Selenoid - A lightweight Selenium hub implementation launching browsers in Docker containers.
- zalando/zalenium - Allows anyone to have a disposable and flexible Selenium Grid infrastructure
- bravostudiodev/bravo-grid - Docker image/setup for Selenium Grid Extras (see under Selenium Grid section), for providing remote Sikuli test/automation execution and grid node file upload/download support.

#### Kubernetes

- kubernetes/examples - Example deployment of Selenium Hub and Nodes on a Kubernetes cluster
- Moon - A commercial closed-source enterprise Selenium implementation using Kubernetes to launch browsers
- Callisto - An open-source tool to launch browsers in Kubernetes. Separate is created for each selenium session.
- WebGrid - An open-source, decentralized, scalable and robust selenium-grid equivalent.

### Driver

#### Desktop (browsers)

- Firefox - Firefox driver (for FF < v48) is included in the selenium-server-standalone.jar available in the downloads.
- Geckodriver - Firefox driver (for FF > v48), supported with Selenium >= v3
- 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.
- Edgedriver - Microsoft Webdriver server for Edge
- 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 (only supported for Safari <= v9, all new Safari version comming with macOS Sierra come with an integrated SafariDriver that is closed source by Apple).
- Opera - OperaDriver is a vendor-supported WebDriver implementation developed by Opera Software and volunteers that implements WebDriver API for Opera.

#### Mobile (browsers and apps)

- Appium - Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps. It drives iOS, Android Apps using the WebDriver protocol.
- Selendroid - Selendroid is based on the Android instrumentation framework.
- ios-driver - Test any IOS native, hybrid, or mobile web application using Selenium / WebDriver.
- WebDriverAgent - a WebDriver server for iOS to remote control devices via WebDriver API.

#### Desktop GUI Automation (non-browser-centric)

- WinAppDriver - Microsoft’s WebDriver implementation for Windows application automation.
- Winium - Automation framework for Windows platforms. It is free. It is opensource. It is Selenium-based. Supports: Windows Desktop (WPF, WinForms); Windows Store or Universal Apps for Windows Phone; Windows Phone Silverlight Apps.
- QtWebDriver - For using WebDriver to automate Qt-based GUI applications.
- AutoItDriverServer - Selenium server to control/drive AutoIt via (Remote)WebDriver API.
- AutoPyDriverServer - Selenium server to control/drive AutoPy via (Remote)WebDriver API.
- Appium for Mac - Appium/WebDriver implementation for automating Mac OS X desktop.
- SilkAppDriver - Selenium server to control/drive the commercial SilkTest platform via (Remote)WebDriver API.

### Desktop Tools

- SWET - A successor to SWD Page Recorder, for the same functionality.
- Looking Glass - Java application that offers a cross-browser element inspector and Selenium code generator.
- Silk WebDriver - A Selenium IDE alternative for record, playback, and script export, from the creators of SilkTest.
- Fire IE Selenium - Microsoft Excel-based tool providing element inspection for Internet Explorer browser.

### Selenium Grid

- Selenium Grid Extras - A framework that provides additional features beyond the basic Selenium Grid like video recording.
- SeLion - A (Java) framework for running Selenium tests with additional features beyond the basic Selenium Grid functionality, particularly like stability improvements, etc.
- Selenium Grid Extensions - A set of extensions for Selenium Grid that provide additional features like running Sikuli tests/automation remotely, upload/download files on a grid node.

### 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.
- HeadSpin - Test your website for cross browser compatibility on thousands of real device running real browsers. Get instant access to multiple desktop and mobile browsers on the cloud. Get Free Trial.
- Browserstack - Test your website for cross browser compatibility on real browsers. Instant access to multiple desktop and mobile browsers. Get Free Trial.
- TestGrid - End to End testing of mobile apps & websites on 1000+ real browsers & OS. Request Free Trial.
- LambdaTest - Test your website for cross browser compatibility on 2000+ real browsers & OS. Get Free Trial.
- TestingBot - TestingBot provides easy cross browser testing with Selenium in the cloud.
- Moon Cloud - Your dedicated Selenium cluster in public cloud platform with per-minute billing and unlimited number of browsers.
- Mail7 - Disposable email service to automate the email workflow testing, This document explains how to implement Mail7 with Selenium
- Thundra Foresight - A visibility tool into your test suites by spotting test failures in no time.
- Hyperbrowser - Browser infrastructure and automation for running and scaling Selenium automations with headless Chrome with advanced features like proxies, captcha solving, and session recording.

### Device Farms

- OpenSTF - A framework for running your own device farm, geared toward Android, but also iOS.

### 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 process, can be used with Celery, built on top of Twisted.
- 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 behavior 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.
- SauceLabs Blog - Blog curated by SauceLabs.

## License

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

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