Advantages of Selenium WebDriver over RC

Question

I want to understand the difference between Selenium WebDriver and Selenium RC. I want to understand which one is better to use?

Answer 1

Selenium RC:-

• Selenium Remote Control (RC) is used to write test cases in different Programming languages
• In Selenium IDE, we can run the recorded scripts only in Firefox browser, whereas, in Selenium RC, we can run the recorded script in any browser like IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera and so on

Selenium WebDriver:-

• Selenium WebDriver is a tool used to automate testing for web application
• It allows us to execute tests against different browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE & Safari
• Selenium WebDriver eliminated the use of Selenium Server thus making it work faster than RC