--- title: 'Webdriver Backed Selenium: use RC and WebDriver together' description: |- Today we have added full support for Webdriver-backed Selenium, which allows you to use the two API's together in a single test. By using this fe... source_url: html: https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/05/14/webdriver-backed-selenium-use-rc-and-webdriver-together md: https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/05/14/webdriver-backed-selenium-use-rc-and-webdriver-together.md --- # Webdriver-backed Selenium By [Jochen D.](https://testingbot.com/about/jochen-d)2012-05-14 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Post on Reddit Share link Today we have added full support for Webdriver-backed Selenium, which allows you to use the two API's together in a single test. By using this feature, it will be easier for you to migrate your existing Selenium RC tests to the new WebDriver format. Here's a list of reasons on why you should consider start using WebDriver: - Better and more consistent API - Improved emulation of user interactions. WebDriver uses native events in order to interact with a web page, where possible. - Support by the major browser vendors. Chrome, FireFox and Opera are all active contributors in WebDriver’s development - Faster, less error-prone tests Even though not all RC commands are supported, you can now run most of your RC tests on a WebDriver instance inside our grid. An example of using the two API's together in Ruby would be: ```ruby #!/usr/bin/env ruby require "rubygems" require 'testingbot' gem "selenium-client" gem "selenium-webdriver" require "selenium-webdriver" require "selenium/client" selenium = Selenium::Client::Driver.new :host => "hub.testingbot.com", :port => 4444, :url => "https://www.facebook.com", :browser => "*webdriver" caps = { :browserName => "iexplore", :platform => "WINDOWS" } urlhub = "http://API_KEY:API_SECRET@hub.testingbot.com:4444/wd/hub" client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new client.timeout = 120 @webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => urlhub, :desired_capabilities => caps, :http_client => client selenium.start :driver => @webdriver puts @webdriver.title == selenium.title # WebDriver and RC together selenium.open "/" # RC @webdriver.quit # WebDriver ``` This test will show up in our member area with screenshots/video and a list of steps from both RC and WebDriver. 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