An updated EdgeDriver implementation for Selenium 3 with newly-added support for Edge Chromium.
The following are 9 code examples for showing how to use selenium.webdriver.Edge.These examples are extracted from open source projects. You can vote up the ones you like or vote down the ones you don't like, and go to the original project or source file by following the links above each example. Description The new Selenium IDE is designed to record your interactions with websites to help you generate and maintain site automation, tests, and remove the need to manually step through repetitive takes. Features include:. Recording and playing back tests on Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Organizing tests into suites for easy management.
Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge
Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge extends Selenium 3 with a unified driver to help you write automated tests for both the Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML) and new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers.
The libraries included in this project are fully compatible with Selenium's built-in Edge libraries, and run Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML) by default so you can use our project as a seamless drop-in replacement. In addition to being compatible with your existing Selenium tests, Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge gives you the ability to drive the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser and unlock all of the latest functionality!
The classes in this package are based on the existing Edge and Chrome driver classes included in the Selenium project.
Before you Begin
The Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge is a solution for developers who prefer to remain on Selenium 3 which is the current stable release and developers who have existing browser tests and want to add coverage for the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser without changing the Selenium version.
The very same Edge driver classes provided in this package are included in Selenium 4 and are already available today in the latest Selenium 4 Alpha release. If you are able to upgrade to Selenium 4 Alpha, there is no need to use this package as Selenium should already have everything you need built in!
Getting Started
Downloading Driver Executables
You will need the correct WebDriver executable for the version of Microsoft Edge you want to drive. The executables are not included with this package. WebDriver executables for all supported versions of Microsoft Edge are available for download here. For more information, and instructions on downloading the correct driver for your browser, see the Microsoft Edge WebDriver documentation.
Installation
Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge depends on the official Selenium 3 package to run. You will need to ensure that both Selenium 3 and the Tools and included in your project.
C#
Add the Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools and Selenium.WebDriver packages to your .NET project using the NuGet CLI or Visual Studio.
JavaScript
Python
Use pip to install the msedge-selenium-tools and selenium packages:
Example Code
See the Microsoft Edge WebDriver documentation for lots more information on using Microsoft Edge (Chromium) with WebDriver.
C#
JavaScript
Python
Contributing
We are glad you are interested in automating the latest Microsoft Edge browser and improving the automation experience for the rest of the community!
Before you begin, please read & follow our Contributor's Guide. Consider also contributing your feature or bug fix directly to Selenium so that it will be included in future Selenium releases.
Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge
Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge extends Selenium 3 with a unified driver to help you write automated tests for both the Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML) and new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers.
The libraries included in this project are fully compatible with Selenium's built-in Edge libraries, and run Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML) by default so you can use our project as a seamless drop-in replacement. In addition to being compatible with your existing Selenium tests, Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge gives you the ability to drive the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser and unlock all of the latest functionality!
The classes in this package are based on the existing Edge and Chrome driver classes included in the Selenium project.
Before you Begin
The Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge is a solution for developers who prefer to remain on Selenium 3 which is the current stable release and developers who have existing browser tests and want to add coverage for the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser without changing the Selenium version.
The very same Edge driver classes provided in this package are included in Selenium 4 and are already available today in the latest Selenium 4 Alpha release. If you are able to upgrade to Selenium 4 Alpha, there is no need to use this package as Selenium should already have everything you need built in!
Getting Started
Downloading Driver Executables
You will need the correct WebDriver executable for the version of Microsoft Edge you want to drive. The executables are not included with this package. WebDriver executables for all supported versions of Microsoft Edge are available for download here. For more information, and instructions on downloading the correct driver for your browser, see the Microsoft Edge WebDriver documentation.
Installation
Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge depends on the official Selenium 3 package to run. You will need to ensure that both Selenium 3 and the Tools and included in your project.
C#
Add the Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools and Selenium.WebDriver packages to your .NET project using the NuGet CLI or Visual Studio.
JavaScript
Python
Use pip to install the msedge-selenium-tools and selenium packages:
Example Code
See the Microsoft Edge WebDriver documentation for lots more information on using Microsoft Edge (Chromium) with WebDriver.
C#
JavaScript
Python
Contributing
We are glad you are interested in automating the latest Microsoft Edge browser and improving the automation experience for the rest of the community!
Before you begin, please read & follow our Contributor's Guide. Consider also contributing your feature or bug fix directly to Selenium so that it will be included in future Selenium releases.
Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
Dependencies
.NETFramework 3.5
- Selenium.WebDriver(= 3.141.0)
.NETFramework 4.0
- Selenium.WebDriver(= 3.141.0)
.NETFramework 4.5
- Selenium.WebDriver(= 3.141.0)
.NETStandard 2.0
- Selenium.WebDriver(= 3.141.0)
Used By
NuGet packages (8)
Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools:
| Package | Downloads |
|---|---|
| Bellatrix.Web Bellatrix is a cross-platform, easily customizable and extendable .NET test automation framework that increases tests’ reliability. | |
| Aquality.Selenium | |
| BasinFramework A .NET browser automation framework based on Selenium WebDriver | |
| Liberator.Driver Liberator Driver works as an abstraction layer over Selenium WebDriver.Liberator uses Expected Conditions to avoid the race conditions common when automating a user interface, thereby ensuring a more efficient performance. Every setting of the individual driver types can be set using preferences, enabling the dependent frameworks built on its functionality to fine tune their performance. Errors in browser interaction are correctly trapped for all Selenium methods. | |
| h18.SeleniumWithSpecFlow.Edge Adds extended features when running Selenium tests with SpecFlow, MSTest framework and Microsoft Edge Chromium |
GitHub repositories (1)
Showing the top 1 popular GitHub repositories that depend on Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools:
| Repository | Stars |
|---|---|
| AutomateThePlanet/AutomateThePlanet-Learning-Series |
Version History
| Version | Downloads | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| 3.141.2 | 217,990 | 6/25/2020 |
| 3.141.1 | 31,051 | 5/11/2020 |
| 3.141.0 | 15,324 | 3/24/2020 |
| Stable release | |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
| Written in | Selenium Server: Java; Selenium WebDriver (works without Selenium Server), official support: JavaScript (Node.js), Python, Ruby, Java or C#[2] |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Software testingframework for web applications |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | selenium.dev |
Selenium is a portable framework for testingweb applications. Selenium provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.
History[edit]
Microsoft Edge Selenium Ide
Selenium was originally developed by Jason Huggins in 2004 as an internal tool at ThoughtWorks. Huggins was later joined by other programmers and testers at ThoughtWorks, before Paul Hammant joined the team and steered the development of the second mode of operation that would later become 'Selenium Remote Control' (RC). The tool was open sourced that year.
In 2005 Dan Fabulich and Nelson Sproul (with help from Pat Lightbody) made an offer to accept a series of patches that would transform Selenium-RC into what it became best known for. In the same meeting, the steering of Selenium as a project would continue as a committee, with Huggins and Hammant being the ThoughtWorks representatives.[3]
In 2007, Huggins joined Google. Together with others like Jennifer Bevan, he continued with the development and stabilization of Selenium RC. At the same time, Simon Stewart at ThoughtWorks developed a superior browser automation tool called WebDriver. In 2009, after a meeting between the developers at the Google Test Automation Conference, it was decided to merge the two projects, and call the new project Selenium WebDriver, or Selenium 2.0.[4]
In 2008, Philippe Hanrigou (then at ThoughtWorks) made 'Selenium Grid', which provides a hub allowing the running of multiple Selenium tests concurrently on any number of local or remote systems, thus minimizing test execution time. Grid offered, as open source, a similar capability to the internal/private Google cloud for Selenium RC. Pat Lightbody had already made a private cloud for 'HostedQA' which he went on to sell to Gomez, Inc.
The name Selenium comes from a joke made by Huggins in an email, mocking a competitor named Mercury, saying that you can cure mercury poisoning by taking selenium supplements. The others that received the email took the name and ran with it.[5]
Components[edit]
Selenium is composed of several components with each taking on a specific role in aiding the development of web application test automation.[6]
Selenium IDE[edit]
Selenium IDE is a complete integrated development environment (IDE) for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox Add-On and as a Chrome Extension. It allows for recording, editing and debugging of functional tests. It was previously known as Selenium Recorder. Selenium-IDE was originally created by Shinya Kasatani and donated to the Selenium project in 2006. Selenium IDE was previously little-maintained.[7] Selenium IDE began being actively maintained in 2018.[8][9][10][11]
Scripts may be automatically recorded and edited manually providing autocompletion support and the ability to move commands around quickly. Scripts are recorded in Selenese, a special test scripting language for Selenium. Selenese provides commands for performing actions in a browser (click a link, select an option) and for retrieving data from the resulting pages.
The 2.x version of the Selenium IDE for Firefox stopped working[12] after the Firefox 55 upgrade and has been replaced by Selenium IDE 3.x.[13]
In addition to the official Selenium IDE project, two alternative Selenium IDE browser extensions are actively maintained:[14] Kantu (Open-SourceGPL license) and Katalon Recorder (Closed Source).
Selenium client API[edit]
As an alternative to writing tests in Selenese, tests can also be written in various programming languages. These tests then communicate with Selenium by calling methods in the Selenium Client API. Selenium currently provides client APIs for Java, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, R and Python.
With Selenium 2, a new Client API was introduced (with WebDriver as its central component). However, the old API (using class Selenium) is still supported.
Selenium Remote Control[edit]
Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a server, written in Java, that accepts commands for the browser via HTTP. RC makes it possible to write automated tests for a web application in any programming language, which allows for better integration of Selenium in existing unit test frameworks. To make writing tests easier, Selenium project currently provides client drivers for PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET, Perl and Java. The Java driver can also be used with JavaScript (via the Rhino engine). An instance of selenium RC server is needed to launch html test case - which means that the port should be different for each parallel run.[citation needed] However, for Java/PHP test case only one Selenium RC instance needs to be running continuously.[15]
Selenium Grid Microsoft Edge
Selenium Remote Control was a refactoring of Driven Selenium or Selenium B designed by Paul Hammant, credited with Jason as co-creator of Selenium. The original version directly launched a process for the browser in question, from the test language of Java, .NET, Python or Ruby. The wire protocol (called 'Selenese' in its day) was reimplemented in each language port. After the refactor by Dan Fabulich and Nelson Sproul (with help from Pat Lightbody) there was an intermediate daemon process between the driving test script and the browser. The benefits included the ability to drive remote browsers and the reduced need to port every line of code to an increasingly growing set of languages. Selenium Remote Control completely took over from the Driven Selenium code-line in 2006. The browser pattern for 'Driven'/'B' and 'RC' was response/request, which subsequently became known as Comet.
Selenium RC served as the flagship testing framework of the entire project of selenium for a long-standing time. And significantly Selenium RC is the first and foremost automated web testing tool that enabled users to adopt their preferred programming language. [16][17]
With the release of Selenium 2, Selenium RC has been officially deprecated in favor of Selenium WebDriver.
Selenium WebDriver[edit]
Selenium WebDriver is the successor to Selenium RC. Selenium WebDriver accepts commands (sent in Selenese, or via a Client API) and sends them to a browser. This is implemented through a browser-specific browser driver, which sends commands to a browser and retrieves results. Most browser drivers actually launch and access a browser application (such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, or Microsoft Edge); there is also an HtmlUnit browser driver, which simulates a browser using the headless browser HtmlUnit.
Unlike in Selenium 1, where the Selenium server was necessary to run tests, Selenium WebDriver does not need a special server to execute tests. Instead, the WebDriver directly starts a browser instance and controls it. However, Selenium Grid can be used with WebDriver to execute tests on remote systems (see below). Where possible, WebDriver uses native operating system level functionality rather than browser-based JavaScript commands to drive the browser. This bypasses problems with subtle differences between native and JavaScript commands, including security restrictions.[18]
In practice, this means that the Selenium 2.0 API has significantly fewer calls than does the Selenium 1.0 API. Where Selenium 1.0 attempted to provide a rich interface for many different browser operations, Selenium 2.0 aims to provide a basic set of building blocks from which developers can create their own domain-specific language (DSL). One such DSL already exists: the Watir project in the Ruby language has a rich history of good design. Watir-webdriver implements the Watir API as a wrapper for Selenium WebDriver in Ruby. Watir-webdriver is created entirely automatically, based on the WebDriver specification and the HTML specification.
As of early 2012, Simon Stewart (inventor of WebDriver), who was then with Google, and David Burns of Mozilla were negotiating with the W3C to make WebDriver an Internet standard. In July 2012, the working draft was released and the recommendation followed in June 2018.[19] Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2.0) is fully implemented and supported in Python, Ruby, Java, and C#.
Selenium Grid[edit]
Selenium Grid is a server that allows tests to use web browser instances running on remote machines. With Selenium Grid, one server acts as the central hub. Tests contact the hub to obtain access to browser instances. The hub has a list of servers that provide access to browser instances (WebDriver nodes), and lets tests use these instances. Selenium Grid allows running tests in parallel on multiple machines and to manage different browser versions and browser configurations centrally (instead of in each individual test).
The ability to run tests on remote browser instances is useful to spread the load of testing across several machines and to run tests in browsers running on different platforms or operating systems. The latter is particularly useful in cases where not all browsers to be used for testing can run on the same platform.[20]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^'Downloads'. Selenium.
- ^'Selenium History'. www.selenium.dev.
- ^'The Selenium Project'. NewCircle. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ^Krill, Paul (April 6, 2011). 'Open source Selenium web app test suite to support iPhone and Android'. InfoWorld. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
Selenium was so named because Huggins, dissatisfied with testing tools on the market, was seeking a name that would position the product as an alternative to Mercury Interactive QuickTest Professional commercial testing software. The name, Selenium, was selected because selenium mineral supplements serve as a cure for mercury poisoning, Huggins explained.
- ^Moizuddin, Khaja (June 7, 2018). 'Components of the Selenium Automation Tool'. dzone.com. DevOps Zone. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ^Evans, Jim. 'Selenium Users - Selenium IDE seems dated and lacks features'. groups.google.com. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^'It's back! Selenium IDE Reborn with Dave Haeffner'. testingpodcast.com.
- ^'Selenium IDE Is Dead, Long Live Selenium IDE!'. Selenium IDE Official Blog. August 6, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2019 – via seleniumhq.wordpress.com.
- ^Colantonio, Joe (November 27, 2018). 'Stunning return of Selenium IDE'. testguild.com. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
- ^'List of new Selenium IDE features'. applitools.com.
- ^'Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE'. Official Selenium Blog. August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- ^'Selenium IDE Download Site'. seleniumhq.org. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
- ^'Selenium IDE rises like a phoenix from the ashes'. Automation Technology Blog. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^'Selenium Remote-Control'. seleniumhq.org. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^'Selenium 1 (Selenium RC) :: Documentation for Selenium'. www.selenium.dev. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^sparkdatabox_author. 'Selenium | Spark Databox'. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^'The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Selenium WebDriver'. aosabook.org. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ^Smith, Michael. 'WebDriver motors on to W3C Recommendation'. W3C Blog. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^'Selenium Grid'. The Selenium Browser Automation Project. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
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External links[edit]
- Official website
Selenium Microsoft Edge