Does Behat started to use selenium webdriver?

Question

I know , behat framework uses Selenium stand alone server to run the files which is not very effective. Has it been updated to use selenium webdriver ??...

Answer 1

"uses Selenium stand alone server to run the files which is not very effective. Has it been updated to use selenium webdriver"

Using the stand-alone server is irrelevant. The stand-alone server has both Selenium RC and Selenium WebDriver built in. It all depends on which classes you are extending from.

So to your question:

Has it been updated to use selenium webdriver?

Behat is just a DSL of sorts... If you are using Behat with Selenium, then it depends on what you are extending your classes from.

Answer 2

Behat itself has nothing to do with selenium.

Web automation is implemented in Mink, which is used with Behat via the MinkExtension.

All the drivers supported by Mink out of the box are listen in their docs:

• GoutteDriver
• BrowserKitDriver
• Selenium2Driver
• ZombieDriver
• SahiDriver
• SeleniumDriver

As you probably noticed there are two selenium drivers - SeleniumDriver supports the old SeleniumRC protocol - while Selenium2Driver supports the webdriver.