Migrating to Webdriver from Selenium RC

Question

I am migrating from RC to webdriver. In my existing project I use methods from the Selenium Class like selenium.click() selenium.type() etc.

Do I need to change these to the equivalent webdriver commands, or is there a way i can still use these commands?

I use firefox 12, Eclipse IDE

Answer 1

There is the WebDriverBackedSelenium. Essentially this is a bridge between the RC API and WebDriver API. This will do what you are after, there will be some modification to code, but majority will still be the same. It gives you the flexibility of the WebDriver itself, while keeping old code the same.

It is highly recommended to fully convert your solution to use the WebDriver API directly.

The WebDriver API is constantly being updated, worked on and supported.

The RC API and the "RC-WebDriver-Bridge" (WebDriverBackedSelenium) won't be.

Page on WebDriverBackedSelenium exists here:

http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html#alternative-back-ends-mixing-webdriver-and-rc-technologies

Sample usage to create a new instance of Firefox:

var driver = new FirefoxDriver();

var selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, baseUrl);

selenium.open("http://www.google.com");
selenium.type("name=q", "cheese");
selenium.click("name=btnG");

selenium.stop();