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1. Re: Advantage of Arquillian Drone compared to Selenium IDE
jhuska Jun 11, 2014 2:07 AM (in response to jee-developer)1 of 1 people found this helpfulHello,
speaking about XPath locators: they should be avoided if possible, because they are not reliable (you can read about it more e.g. here), they slower to locate according to our experience. IMHO they are also less readable and it is more difficult to maintain them. In this matter there is no difference between Selenium IDE and Drone. They should be imho avoided if possible in both frameworks (not sure if possible in Selenium IDE).
A crucial advantages of Drone over Selenium IDE: Firstly, there are the same advantages which WebDriver (Selenium 2) has over Selenium IDE, because Drone is using it internally. It can be read for example in this post.
Drone, however, adds another advantages: instantiation of WebDriver object automatically, possibility to config the browser from one point (arquillian.xml), injection of resources to the test, and overall integration with whole Arquillian lifecycle (starting container, deploying, ...).
Last project mentioned in the video is Graphene, and that is the last piece in the Arquillian Universe of Web UI testing. That project is currently recommended to use for functional testing your web site. For more information please see its getting started guide, or its documentation
Should you have more questions please ask.