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What are difference between Selenium IDE, RC and WebDriver

Selenium IDE
Selenium RC
Selenium WebDriver
It only works in Mozilla browser.
It supports with all browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc.
It supports with all browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc.
It supports Record and playback
It doesn’t supports Record and playback
It doesn’t supports Record and playback
Doesn’t required to start server before executing the test script.
Required to start server before executing the test script.
Doesn’t required to start server before executing the test script.
It is a GUI Plug-in
It is standalone java program which allow you to run Html test suites.
It actual core API which has binding in a range of languages.
Core engine is Javascript based
Core engine is Javascript based
Interacts natively with browser application
Very simple to use as it is record & playback.
It is easy and small API
As compared to RC, it is bit complex and large API.
It is not object oriented
API’s are less Object oriented
API’s are entirely Object oriented
It doesn’t supports of moving mouse cursors.
It doesn’t supports of moving mouse cursors.
It supports of moving mouse cursors.
Need to append full xpath with ‘xpath=\\’ syntax
Need to append full xpath with ‘xpath=\\’ syntax
No need to append full xpath with ‘xpath=\\’ syntax
It does not supports listeners
It does not supports listeners
It supports the implementation of listeners
It does not support to test iphone/Android applications
It does not support to test iphone/Android applications
It support to test iphone/Android applications

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