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selenium-webdriver vs watir: What are the differences?
Developers describe selenium-webdriver as "WebDriver is a tool for writing automated tests of websites". WebDriver is a tool for writing automated tests of websites. It aims to mimic the behaviour of a real user, and as such interacts with the HTML of the application. On the other hand, watir is detailed as "Watir stands for Web Application Testing In Ruby It facilitates the writing of automated tests by mimicing the behavior of a user interacting with a website". Watir stands for Web Application Testing In Ruby It facilitates the writing of automated tests by mimicing the behavior of a user interacting with a website.
selenium-webdriver and watir can be primarily classified as "RubyGems Packages" tools.
selenium-webdriver and watir are both open source tools. selenium-webdriver with 20.9K GitHub stars and 6.32K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than watir with 1.39K GitHub stars and 232 GitHub forks.
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