What are the benefits of using splinter as opposed to plain Selenium?

[Kevin]

Taking a brief look at the site and docs today, I'm wondering if there
are key differences between Splinter and Selenium? Is Splinter just a
high-level wrapper for Selenium?

Thanks!
Kevin

[Francisco Souza]

Yes, it is. But not only Selenium, we want to add other drivers to Selenium, so it'll be easy to change between drivers, or use more than one driver. Selenium is little slow, so you can use zope.testbrowser for tests that don't deal with JavaScript.

Imagine you're starting and don't have to worry about JavaScript, you can start testing using the zope.testbrowser driver. Then, if you start needing to test JavaScript-based components, or for another reason you need to actually open the browser, all you need to do is change the driver.

Regards,

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Francisco Souza

[Hugo Lopes Tavares]

The basic idea behind splinter in the old days was: one API for
whatever browser driver you want to use.

And splinter make it easy to you finding elements and deal with boring
stuff selenium does not.

Later!