In earlier days of web automation using Selenium, we used to start a driver session with help of many intermediate steps and third-party dependencies. We used System.setProperty to set the driver executable path prior to instantiating the session and used this method for many years as a traditional way to start the session,... Continue Reading →
Selenium Relative Locators or Friendly Locators
As we know that the Selenium 4.x came out along with a lot of new features and functionalities. In this article, I would like to share Selenium 4's feature known as Relative Locators (formerly known as Friendly Locators). Relative locators help locate WebElements based on the location relative to other DOM elements. ... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Selenium Webdriver Instantiation in Selenium(3.7.x)
In latest selenium 3.7.x version, most of the drivers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari) are deprecated; in the next release of selenium will remove those driver instantiation logic. Following are the new way of driver instantiation in selenium 3.7.x: For Internet Explorer: WebDriver driver; System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", <path to IEDriverServer>); InternetExplorerDriverService ieservice= new InternetExplorerDriverService.Builder().build(); driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieservice); For... Continue Reading →
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