Clear cache before running some Selenium WebDriver tests using Java

Question

I am working on Selenium WebDriver automation in java programming language. In my test suite that initiates the browser window once and perform all the tests. I want to clear the browser cache before running some tests without restarting the browser. Is there any command/function, that can achieve the purpose? Thanks.

Answer 1

This is what I use in Python:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('chrome://settings/clearBrowserData')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//settings-ui').send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

You can try converting these into Java. Hope this will help! :)

Answer 2

For IE

DesiredCapabilities ieCap =  DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
ieCap.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);

For Chrome:

https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=583

To delete cookies:

driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();