{"id":5011,"date":"2018-10-27T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2024-12-14T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T05:44:13","slug":"what-are-the-different-versions-of-selenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/what-are-the-different-versions-of-selenium\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the different versions of Selenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What are the different versions of Selenium<\/h2>\n<p>The latest official version of Selenium as of today is Selenium 3. An undocumented preview Alpha version Selenium 4 is available out there. Apart from other third-party tools and plugins that surround the Selenium ecosystem. The main versions of the Selenium are as follows:<\/p>\n<h3>Selenium 4<\/h3>\n<p>Selenium 4.x is yet to come as of writing this page. Selenium 4.x is in Alpha stage. We can try this by taking the 4.x dependencies into the project.<\/p>\n<h3>Selenium 3.x<\/h3>\n<p>Currently, this is the official version of Selenium.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WebDriver API and Language Bindings<\/li>\n<li>Selenium Grid for distributed testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selenium Remote Control was deprecated in Selenium version 3.x It&#8217;s now available as a legacy.<\/p>\n<h3>Selenium 2.x<\/h3>\n<p>An older version of Selenium was 2.x prior to version 3. It consists of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selenium Remote Control<\/li>\n<li>WebDriver API<\/li>\n<li>Selenium Grid<\/li>\n<li>Selenium-Core<\/li>\n<li>Selenium RC Server<\/li>\n<li>Language Client libraries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Version 1.x<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Selenium Remote Control<\/li>\n<li>Selenium-Core<\/li>\n<li>Selenium RC Server<\/li>\n<li>Language Client libraries for example Java language -&gt; selenium-java-client-driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>\/\/Instantiating Remote Control Server \r\n browser = new DefaultSelenium(\"localhost\", \r\n                 4444, \"*iexplore\", \"&lt;application_uder_test_URL&gt;\"); \r\nbrowser.start();\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Starting Remote Control Server<\/p>\n<p>java -jar selenium-server.jar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the different versions of Selenium The latest official version of Selenium as of today is Selenium 3. An undocumented preview Alpha version Selenium 4 is available out there. Apart from other third-party tools and plugins that surround the Selenium ecosystem. The main versions of the Selenium are as follows: Selenium 4 Selenium 4.x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selenium","tag-selenium","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26460,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/26460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}