https://github.com/w3c/webdriver

Remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents.
https://github.com/w3c/webdriver

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Remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver
• Owner: w3c
• License: other
• Created: 2014-10-30T23:05:22.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-07T09:33:51.000Z (19 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-17T22:04:42.984Z (9 days ago)
• Topics: automation, browser, remote-control, standard, w3c-specification, webdriver
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/
• Size: 7.42 MB
• Stars: 685
• Watchers: 99
• Forks: 197
• Open Issues: 295
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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README

        
WebDriver Standard

==================

WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection

and control of user agents.  It provides a platform- and language-neutral

wire protocol as a way for out-of-process programs to remotely

instruct the behavior of web browsers.

Provided is a set of interfaces to discover and manipulate DOM

elements in web documents and to control the behavior of a user

agent. It is primarily intended to allow web authors to write tests

that automate a user agent from a separate controlling process, but

may also be used in such a way as to allow in-browser scripts to

control a — possibly separate — browser.

The standard is authored by the W3C [Browser Testing and Tools

Working Group], and has produced the following documents:

* **Living Document**: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/

* **Level 2** (Working Draft): https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver2/

* **Level 1** (Recommendation): https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver1/

Contribute

----------

In short, change `index.html` and submit a pull request

(PR) with a [good commit message].  Changes that affect behaviour

_must_ be accompanied with corresponding test changes to the [Web

Platform Tests] repository.

We use [ReSpec] to help us maintain referential integrity,

bibliographical data, and perform other mundane tasks such as

styling.  To preview your changes, just load `index.html` from disk

in a browser.  To verify the integrity of the document you can run

`make test`.

You may add your name to the [Acknowledgements] section in your

first PR, even for trivial fixes.  The names are sorted lexicographically.

See [CONTRIBUTING.md] for more guidelines.

Vendor status documents

-----------------------

* [Mozilla Firefox](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=721859&hide_resolved=1)

* [Microsoft Edge](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver#w3c-webdriver)

* [Apple Safari](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/macos_webdriver_commands_for_safari_12_and_later)

* [WebKit GTK port](http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebDriverStatus)

* [Selenium IEDriverServer](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/W3C-WebDriver-Status)

* [Chrome](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/chromedriver_status.md)

[Browser Testing- and Tools Working Group]: https://www.w3.org/testing/browser/

[good commit message]: https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Writing-good-commit-messages

[Acknowledgements]: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/#acknowledgements

[Web Platform Tests]: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/webdriver

[ReSpec]: https://github.com/w3c/respec/wiki

[CONTRIBUTING.md]: ./CONTRIBUTING.md