In selenium Can we interact with browsers directly without using browsers web drivers like codedui

Question

HI ,

In Coded ui we are not using any browsers webdrivers. we are using as below

BrowserWindow bw = BrowserWindow.Launch(new System.Uri("https://www.google.com") .

all the browser engines are build on js, only then why we  browser specific webdrivers . could u plz guide on this.

Comments

The Selenium automation tools speak a language known as Selenese. Rather than issuing Selenese directly to the different types of browsers, web drivers are used to perform the translation. Btw what's your requirement though?!

Answer 1

As per my understanding of your query, you mean to ask the need for a web driver. 

If that's true you should know that Actually, we are implementing "Web driver" which is an interface in selenium.

 All browser-dependent drivers like ChromeDriver, FirefoxDriver, InternetExplorerDriver are Java classes that implement the WebDriver interface. 

This information is important because if you want to run your program against a different browser you do not need to change a bunch of your code for it to work, you just need to swap out the WebDriver for whichever browser you want.

Hope this helps!