Different Driver Services in Selenium and Appium

     As we know that the importance of Automation is increasing day-by-day. And also most of them are looking for open source tools like Selenium and Appium. In 2017, there are some modification happened in Driver instantiation for Selenium Drivers and Appium Drivers. They are commonly using DriverServices to build and start the services for different automation sessions. Here I would like to explain important Driver Services from Selenium and Appium.

WebDriver driver;

InternetExplorerDriverService service = new InternetExplorerDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(new File(<path to IEdriver executable>)).usingAnyFeePort().withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“userdir”)+”\\Logs\\Browser_logs\\InterntExplorer_”+getCurrentDateAndTime()+”.txt”)).withLogLevel(InternetExploreDriverLogLevel.DEBUG).build();

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(service);

For Chrome:

WebDriver driver;

ChromeDriverService chromeservices = new ChromeDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(new File(<path to chromedriver executable>)).usingAnyFreePort().withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“userdir”)+”\\Logs\\Browser_logs\\Chrome_”+ getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”)).withVerbose(true).build();

driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeservices);

For Firefox:

WebDriver driver;

FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();

options.setLogLevel(FirefoxDriverLogLevel.DEBUG);

GeckoDriverService geckodriverservice = new GeckoDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(new File(<path to geckodriver executable>)).usingAnyFreePort().withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“user.dir”) + “\\Logs\\Browser_logs\\Firefox”+getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”)).build();

driver = new FirefoxDriver(geckodriverservice, options);

For Edge:

WebDriver driver;

EdgeDriverService edgeservice = new EdgeDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(new File(<path to edgedriver executable>)).usingAnyFreePort().withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“user.dir”)+”\\Logs\\Browser_logs\\Edge_”+ getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”)).build();

driver = new EdgeDriver(edgeservice);

For PhantomJS:

WebDriver driver;

Capabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();

((DesiredCapabilities) caps).setJavascriptEnabled(true);

((DesiredCapabilities) caps).setCapability(“takesScreenshot”, true);

PhantomJSDriverService phantomjsservice = new PhantomJSDriverService.Builder().usingPhantomJSExecutable(new File(<path to phantomjs executable>)).usingAnyFreePort().withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“user.dir”)+”\\Logs\\Browser_logs\\PhantomJS_”+ getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”)).build();

driver = new PhantomJSDriver(phantomjsservice, caps);

For Electron Rendered Applications:

WebDriver driver;

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.setBinary();

ChromeDriverService chromeservices = new ChromeDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(new File(< path to chromedriver executable>)).usingAnyFreePort().withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“user.dir”) +”\\Logs\\Browser_logs\\Electron_”+ getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”)).withVerbose(true).build();

driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeservices, options);

For Safari:

WebDriver driver;

SafariOptions options = new SafariOptions();

options.useCleanSession(true);

driver = new SafariDriver(options);

For Appium:

WebDriver driver;

AppiumDriverLocalService driverService = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder()
.withAppiumJS(new File()).usingDriverExecutable(new File()).withIPAddress(“127.0.0.1″).usingPort(4723).withArgument(AndroidServerFlag.BOOTSTRAP_PORT_NUMBER,”4724″).withArgument(AndroidServerFlag.CHROME_DRIVER_PORT,”4725”).withLogFile(new File(new File( System.getProperty(“user.dir”) +”\\Appium_logs\\appiumLogs_” + getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”))
.withArgument(GeneralServerFlag.LOG_NO_COLORS));
driverService.start();

For Winium (Windows Desktop Applications):

WebDriver driver;

DesktopOptions options = new DesktopOptions();

options.setApplicationPath(<path to windowsApplication>);

WiniumDriverService service = new WiniumDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(new File(< path to winiumDriver executable>)).usingPort(9999) .withLogFile(new File(System.getProperty(“user.dir”) + “\\Logs\\Windows_logs\\Win_” + getCurrentDateAndTime() + “.txt”)) .withVerbose(false).withSilent(false).buildDesktopService();

service.start();

driver = new WiniumDriver(service, options);

Try to use above mentioned Driver Services in your automation scripts.

make it perfect !