My 'sign in' is in IE browser and after sign in if i click on the links they get opened in chrome browser. How to switch my current browser from IE to chrome during the same Test case. If i create a instance of chrome driver, it opens a new browser altogether and if i use getWindowHandles to get chrome browser count, it gives one. It didn't recognize the chrome browser opened by the IE browser. Please guide me.
I thought opening a new instance of chrome driver would solve my problem but it doesn't let me go to the session created through IE browser chrome browser.
As far as I know, you cannot do it with Selenium as the driver instance, once created, remains with the same browser until quit.
Firstly, have you set you default browser on PC as IE browser? In that case, the new links may also get opened with IE browser so handling windows/tabs would work.
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I am automating a application in selenium automation tool using java, with headless chrome.
My application needs OTP verification on first login in a computer or a new browser(chrome/mozila/IE). Once OTP verified on the machine or browser, from next time it will not request to enter OTP. Login is enough.
Since its headless browser which I am automating ,I thought I can give OTP and verify by entering OTP in console for first time and from next time it may not ask for OTP.
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", constant.browserPathChrome);
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setHeadless(true);
chromeOptions.addArguments("--enable-javascript");
chromeOptions.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("my application url");
But chrome headless keep asking for OTP everytime, when I launch the site from same machine even after verifying it first time in my machine by providing the received OTP in console as input. But everytime I can not give OTP when automating. how to make it behave like other browsers? which capability I should add?
Phantom.js doesnt have this kind of issue, when I give OTP via console for the first time, it takes verifies and from next time it doesnt ask for OTP. but due to some other reasons I am not able to use pahntom.js. I want to use chrome headless.
Selenium will create a new instance of browser for each run, so it is valid that it asks OTP for each run.
One solution may be you can add a Chrome profile while initiating the browser instance, so that selenium will pick this profile instead of launching its default one.
chromeOptions.addArguments("user-data-dir=path_of_chrome_profile");
chrome profile path can be your local path or repository path
I'm writting an automatied test with using selenium dirver and geckoDriver for mozilla firefox v56. The application which I'm testing always ask user to allow the camera usage and always this notification is displayed:
The problem is that, the Mozilla browser session which is created by geckoDriver does not saved settings where I always allow this page to use the camera driver.
I'm talking about this solution: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-page-info-window
I cannot find any parameter in about::config page which which I can run firefox to never ask about this permission again. Can I ask for your help?
I am opening a window based application in my desktop using Sikuli. After clicking on a button in that application, a browser is opened.
Can I get focus on that browser in Selenium? Can Webdriver detect an already opened browser?
The answer to that is no. In order for Selenium Webdriver to control a browser it must be instantiated as WebDriver object creating a session ID, etc..
One possible solution might be to somehow intercept the URL that is generated by the desktop application and use it to launch a Webdriver instance.
Anyone can explain how communication happen between browser and web-driver?. How does webdriver object read and identify html elements in browser ?. For that what is the relationship between webdriver object and browser and how to build the relationship browser and webdriver object?
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.findElements(By.id("element"));
The communication between webdriver and browser happens through a json-wire protocol which is specified in the W3C documentation. All browsers that webdriver supports, uses this same protocol.
How does webdriver read and identify elements in a page? This varies from browser to browser.
Firefox - webdriver gets installed as a plugin in your browser while running the test. The webdriver server will send the json-commands to this plugin and those commands will get executed in the browser. The plugin is built within the webdriver jar file. It will get installed while running the test.
Chrome - For testing chrome, you would also need a chromedriver.exe file. This chromedriver.exe acts similar to the firefox plugin. It can receive the commands from webdriver server and execute it on the browser
IE - Similar to Chrome, IE executes with the help of InternetExplorerDriver.exe.
You can understand more about the functioning by looking at the different DriverFile source code in github.
You can also get an understanding about the working from here - http://www.aosabook.org/en/selenium.html.
I am not sure how updated this page is, but should help to understand the concept.
I have written Java code using Selenium Webdriver and AutoIt that opens a Firefox driver, navigates to a page that requires authentication via selection of a soft certificate, selects the appropriate certificate when the Certificate Selection window pops up, and clicks OK, at which point the page I'm accessing should load but instead it just loads a blank "New Tab"; a new tab isn't opened per se, just the current tab remains blank with the title of "New Tab".
If I perform this process manually (without having Selenium Webdriver open a Firefox driver and I just launch it myself) using the same exact Firefox profile, the page loads after authentication just fine. I should also note that the page loads successfully using driver instances of Internet Explorer and Chrome.
I am using Firefox v33.1, IE 10, and Chrome v38. Finally, I should note that this has nothing to do with my automated certificate selection process because even if I only have Selenium Webdriver open a Firefox driver and stop there and then I take the wheel and select the certificate myself and click OK, it still does the same thing.
I think Selenium Webdriver might have some annoying guard built into the Firefox drivers it instantiates that prevents it from loading pages requiring authentication. If this is the case, does anyone know how to possibly disable that?
Java needed to be set to "Always Activate" under the Firefox Add-ons -> Plugins. Before it was set to "Ask to Activate" but it never explicitly asked to activate after I selected the certificate, thus the page wouldn't load.