Selenium is always taken into consideration in the process of quality testing. The fundamental distinctions between Selenium 3 and Selenium 4 will also be covered today.
Additionally, Selenium testing is frequently employed in the industry. Since we are living in the fastest-growing period, companies must debut their internet products right away in order to stay competitive.
The Selenium framework is one of several automation frameworks available on the market due to the intense rivalry. In the meantime, Selenium 1 (Selenium RC), Selenium 2, Selenium 3, and Selenium 4 (Beta) have all been released.
- Architecture: Selenium 3 uses JSON Wire Protocols for interaction, where Selenium 4 uses W3C protocol for direct interaction between client and server.
- Chrome Driver: In Selenium 3, Chrome Driver extends Remote WebDriver, but in Selenium 4, it extends Chrome Driver itself.
- Communication: Selenium 3 uses JSON Wire Protocol for interaction, where Selenium 4 uses WebDriver W3C protocol.
- Hub & Node Jars: Selenium 3 requires starting Hub & Node Jars before executing Automation tests, where Selenium 4 doesn't.
- Features: Selenium 4 offers new features like Relative Locators, improved Dev-Tools(Chrome Developer Tool) API support, and Reactive WebDriver.