running selenium webdriver test cases against multiple browsers

Question

I am new to selenium testing. I want to run selenium test cases on multiple browsers against internet explorer, Firefox, opera and chrome. What approach i have to follow. Can you people please suggest me which is the best process.

Does selenium web driver supports multiple browsers or not???

We had written login script. It runs successful for Firefox, chrome and internet explorer individually. But i want to run it for those multiple browsers sequentially.

Answer 1

web driver supports multiple browsers of course, there is also support for mobile

ChromeDriver

IEDiver

FirefoxDriver

OperaDriver

AndroidDriver

Here is an exemple to run the same tests in multiple browsers.

package ma.glasnost.test;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
        .........
DesiredCapabilities[] browserList = {DesiredCapabilities.chrome(),DesiredCapabilities.firefox(),DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer(), DesiredCapabilities.opera()};
for (DesiredCapabilities browser : browserList)
{
    try {
        System.out.println("Testing in Browser: "+browser.getBrowserName());
        driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:8080/..."), browser);

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

You could use the WebDriver Extensions framework's JUnitRunner

Here is an example test googling for "Hello World"

@RunWith(WebDriverRunner.class)
@Firefox
@Chrome
@InternetExplorer
public class WebDriverExtensionsExampleTest {

    // Model
    @FindBy(name = "q")
    WebElement queryInput;
    @FindBy(name = "btnG")
    WebElement searchButton;
    @FindBy(id = "search")
    WebElement searchResult;

    @Test
    public void searchGoogleForHelloWorldTest() {
        open("http://www.google.com");
        assertCurrentUrlContains("google");

        type("Hello World", queryInput);
        click(searchButton);

        waitFor(3, SECONDS);
        assertTextContains("Hello World", searchResult);
    }
}

just make sure to add the WebDriver Extensions framework amongst your maven pom.xml dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.webdriverextensions</groupId>
    <artifactId>webdriverextensions</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>

The drivers can be downloaded using the provided maven plugin. Simply add

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.webdriverextensions</groupId>
    <artifactId>webdriverextensions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>install-drivers</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <drivers>
            <driver>
                <name>internetexplorerdriver</name>
                <version>2.44</version>
            </driver>
            <driver>
                <name>chromedriver</name>
                <version>2.12</version>
            </driver>
        </drivers>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

to your pom.xml. Or if you prefer downloading them manually just annotate the test class with the

@DriverPaths(chrome="path/to/chromedriver", internetExplorer ="path/to/internetexplorerdriver")

annotation pointing at the drivers.

Note that the above example uses static methods from the WebDriver Extensions Bot class to make the test more readable. However you are not tied to using them. The above test rewritten in pure Selenium WebDriver would look like this

    @Test
    public void searchGoogleForHelloWorldTest() throws InterruptedException {
        WebDriver driver = WebDriverExtensionsContext.getDriver();

        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
        assert driver.getCurrentUrl().contains("google");

        queryInput.sendKeys("Hello World");
        searchButton.click();

        SECONDS.sleep(3);
        assert searchResult.getText().contains("Hello World");
    }