GEAR UP FOLKS, Selenium 4 is here!!! What's new in Selenium 4: Selenium 4 is fully W3C compliant: This means, in simple terms, that there is no need to install drivers for different types of browsers anymore. To understand how this works, lets go back a little bit in time to the days of Selenium RC where the interaction with web browsers was done through injecting Javascript functions in the browser and use the injection javascript functions to drive the AUT. What happened afterwards starting from Selenium 2 was a bit different. Each browser provided its own APIs that supports the automation. Hence, you will find Chrome browser, Geko driver for firefox and similar drivers for other types of browsers. The new thing in Selenium 4 is that it is fully compliant with W3C which means that no need to install any external web drivers, CHEERS!! Selenium IDE is back. After deprecating Selenium IDE somewhere back in August 2018, it is coming again in Selenium 4 with the en...
In this blog I addresses most of non ordinary challenges that most of the automation testers face on daily basis.