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At the same time, Simon Stewart at ThoughtWorks developed a superior browser automation tool called WebDriver. In 2009, after a meeting between the developers at the Google Test Automation Conference, it was decided to merge the two projects, and call the new project Selenium WebDriver, or Selenium 2.0. [7]
The goal is to simulate real browsers; namely Chrome, Firefox and Edge. The most common use of HtmlUnit is test automation of web pages, but sometimes it can be used for web scraping , or downloading website content.
Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. [3] It is a widely-used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera. The code is also used by several app frameworks.
Midori began as a lightweight [10] [11] web browser using the WebKitGTK rendering engine [10] and the GTK widget toolkit. Midori was part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies collection of applications [12] and followed the Xfce principle of "making the most out of available resources". [13]
Headless browsers or solutions based on Selenium Web Driver are normally used for this purpose. [7] [8] [9] Another variation of this type of test automation tool is for testing mobile applications. This is very useful given the number of different sizes, resolutions, and operating systems used on mobile phones.
It supports Google Chrome's browser extensions and uses Google Search by default. The browser was released on 19 April 2022 via an announcement on Twitter . [ 8 ] It had previously undergone a beta test , with the roughly 100 testers involved [ 9 ] bound to a non-disclosure agreement . [ 10 ]
Playwright is an open-source automation library for browser testing and web scraping [3] developed by Microsoft [4] [5] and launched on 31 January 2020, which has since become popular among programmers and web developers.
Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, [2] and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. [3] A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". [4]