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.