What is Browser Binary Manager how to use it for Selenium

Question

I came to know recently that using \'WebDriver Binaries\' manager is a good practice in Automation projects. But not sure what is this and how to use? Did some google searches

Answer 1

When you say WebDriver binaries, I am assuming that you are talking about the WebDriver bindings or the libraries. With out adding the WebDriver binding's into your project you can't really do anything with the WebDriver interface, like you can't invoke any browser or drive any website. Either you can manually add them into your project build path or you can use any dependency management tool like Maven for getting all the WebDriver libraries into your project. You can then use them. You can either just add the standalone server file, which would do the same job as WebdDriver bindings.

There are Third Party Driver's which we use for each of the bowser's like, chrome - chromedriver.exe, firefox - geckodriver.exe ..etc ---These are also called as WebDriver binarie's(mostly refereed as driver files).