Multiple web frameworks have been invented to simplify the web development process, increase flexibility and reduce time to market. React js is one among them which has a significant growth in recent times. As these web frameworks are being evolved rapidly, we should also adopt tools that provide sophisticated functionality to test them. Even though Selenium is a dominator in the web automation space, it also has some downsides when automating some of the complex web apps that are built using styled-components which results in generating dynamic CSS classes that keep on changing for every UI build.

Automating such scenarios becomes problematic when the CSS classes are ever-changing. Under such circumstances, ReactWebdriver provides a out of box locators that can be used to locate web elements using React js component name, props and state.

Webdriver is primarily used for automating applications for testing purposes, it’s actually intended for browser/mobile automation more generally. It's up to users to come up with creative applications of the automation framework.

As mentioned, most of the users use webdriver just for testing purposes and fail to utilize the full potential the tool has to offer. As a result, all innovations and supporting libraries are purely focused on just testing aspects.

The primary motive of this session is to express my thoughts on how innovation can be applied along with webdriver to create wonders in the automation world.