In Chapter 1, Getting Started, we provided an overview of automation and its benefits, and we also covered Selenium and its components.

In this chapter, we will go deeper into the details of Selenium, describing each of the main WebDriver class methods. Upon completion of this chapter, students will be able to instantiate WebDriver objects for the most commonly used browsers, as well as open and manipulate a browser window and navigate to a web page.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Instantiate a WebDriver object to use Selenium
• Work with the most frequently used methods of the WebDriver class
• Navigate, resize, and switch between windows