diff --git a/types/selenium-standalone/index.d.ts b/types/selenium-standalone/index.d.ts
index 7ffc3f563e..9710abc801 100644
--- a/types/selenium-standalone/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/selenium-standalone/index.d.ts
@@ -22,11 +22,7 @@ export interface InstallOpts {
     basePath?: string;
     version?: string;
     drivers?: {
-        [browser: string]: {
-            version?: string;
-            arch: string | "ia32" | "x64";
-            baseURL: string;
-        }
+        [browser: string]: DriverOptions
     };
     progressCb?: (totalLength: number, progressLength: number, chunkLength: number) => void;
     logger?: (message: string) => void;
@@ -38,11 +34,7 @@ export interface StartOpts {
     basePath?: string;
     version?: string;
     drivers?: {
-        [browser: string]: {
-            version?: string;
-            arch: string | "ia32" | "x64";
-            baseURL: string;
-        }
+        [browser: string]: DriverOptions
     };
     seleniumArgs?: string[];
     javaArgs?: string[];
@@ -53,6 +45,12 @@ export interface StartOpts {
     cb?: (error: Error, child: ChildProcess) => void;
 }
 
+export interface DriverOptions {
+    version?: string;
+    arch?: string | "ia32" | "x64";
+    baseURL?: string;
+}
+
 export interface FsPaths {
     [x: string]: any;
     chrome?: {
diff --git a/types/selenium-standalone/selenium-standalone-tests.ts b/types/selenium-standalone/selenium-standalone-tests.ts
index 9d83bb9a4b..c16b7d6a25 100644
--- a/types/selenium-standalone/selenium-standalone-tests.ts
+++ b/types/selenium-standalone/selenium-standalone-tests.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ let installOpts: InstallOpts = {
     cb: (error: Error) => {},
 };
 
+const installOptsCompact: InstallOpts = {
+    version: "version",
+    drivers: {
+        chrome: {
+            version: "chrome_version",
+        },
+    },
+};
+
 installOpts = {};
 
 installOpts = {
@@ -60,6 +69,15 @@ let startOpts: StartOpts = {
 };
 startOpts = {};
 
+const startOptsCompact: StartOpts = {
+    version: "version",
+    drivers: {
+        firefox: {
+            version: "version",
+        }
+    },
+};
+
 // FsPaths interface
 let fsPaths: FsPaths = {
     bla: "foo",
@@ -88,8 +106,10 @@ fsPaths = {};
 
 // start method
 start(startOpts, (error: Error | null, selenium: ChildProcess) => {});
+start(installOptsCompact, (error: Error | null, selenium: ChildProcess) => {});
 start((error: Error | null, selenium: ChildProcess) => {});
 
 // install method
 install(installOpts, (error: Error | undefined, fsPaths: FsPaths) => {});
+install(installOptsCompact, (error: Error | undefined, fsPaths: FsPaths) => {});
 install((error: Error | undefined, fsPaths: FsPaths) => {});