How to clear browser cache automatically in Selenium WebDriver?

Question

How to clear browser cache before every test run? I tried with driver.manage().deleteAllCookies(); in setUp method after creating the driver instance, it is working for firefox, but for IE no use. Is there any solution for IE please provide me..

Answer 1

There is a driver capability you can set as follows:

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

It worked for me on IE11.

Source: http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/ie/InternetExplorerDriver.html

Answer 2

IE Browser clears the cache for each element after every page load

ieCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.ENABLE_ELEMENT_CACHE_CLEANUP, true);

This will do session clean up:

ieCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);