Publication: Automated Driver Management for Selenium WebDriver
dc.affiliation.dpto | UC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática | es |
dc.affiliation.grupoinv | UC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Aplicaciones y Servicios Telemáticos (GAST) | es |
dc.contributor.author | García Gutiérrez, Boni | |
dc.contributor.author | Muñoz Organero, Mario | |
dc.contributor.author | Alario-Hoyos, Carlos | |
dc.contributor.author | Delgado Kloos, Carlos | |
dc.contributor.funder | Comunidad de Madrid | es |
dc.contributor.funder | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-22T10:22:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-01T23:00:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Selenium WebDriver is a framework used to control web browsers automatically. It provides a cross-browser Application Programming Interface (API) for different languages (e.g., Java, Python, or JavaScript) that allows automatic navigation, user impersonation, and verification of web applications. Internally, Selenium WebDriver makes use of the native automation support of each browser. Hence, a platform-dependent binary file (the so-called driver) must be placed between the Selenium WebDriver script and the browser to support this native communication. The management (i.e., download, setup, and maintenance) of these drivers is cumbersome for practitioners. This paper provides a complete methodology to automate this management process. Particularly, we present WebDriverManager, the reference tool implementing this methodology. WebDriverManager provides different execution methods: as a Java dependency, as a Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool, as a server, as a Docker container, and as a Java agent. To provide empirical validation of the proposed approach, we surveyed the WebDriverManager users. The aim of this study is twofold. First, we assessed the extent to which WebDriverManager is adopted and used. Second, we evaluated the WebDriverManager API following Clarke’s usability dimensions. A total of 148 participants worldwide completed this survey in 2020. The results show a remarkable assessment of the automation capabilities and API usability of WebDriverManager by Java users, but a scarce adoption for other languages. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work has been been supported in part by the "Análisis en tiempo Real de sensores sociALes y EStimación de recursos para transporte multimodal basada en aprendizaje profundo" project (MaGIST-RALES), funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, doi 10.13039/501100011033) under grant PID2019-105221RB-C44. This work also received partial support from FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades - Agencia Estatal de Investigación through project Smartlet (TIN2017-85179-C3-1-R), and from the eMadrid Network, which is funded by the Madrid Regional Government (Comunidad de Madrid) with grant No. S2018/TCS-4307. | en |
dc.format.extent | 51 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | García, B., Munoz-Organero, M., Alario-Hoyos, C. & Kloos, C. D. (2021). Automated driver management for Selenium WebDriver. Empirical Software Engineering, 26(5), 107. | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-09975-3 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1382-3256 | |
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage | 107 | |
dc.identifier.publicationissue | 5 | |
dc.identifier.publicationtitle | Empirical Software Engineering | en |
dc.identifier.publicationvolume | 26 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33302 | |
dc.identifier.uxxi | AR/0000027939 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en |
dc.relation.projectID | Comunidad de Madrid. S2018/TCS-4307 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | Gobierno de España. PID2019-105221RB-C44 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | Gobierno de España. TIN2017-85179-C3-1-R | es |
dc.rights | © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. | en |
dc.rights.accessRights | open access | en |
dc.subject.eciencia | Telecomunicaciones | es |
dc.subject.other | Test automation | en |
dc.subject.other | Testing tools | en |
dc.subject.other | Selenium WebDriver | en |
dc.title | Automated Driver Management for Selenium WebDriver | en |
dc.type | research article | * |
dc.type.hasVersion | AM | * |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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