I'm trying to pass in the Andriod/iOS version through our test case file (.csv) and have the in-house framework download the appropriate chromedriver automatically. I looked into chromedriverchromemapfile but it looks like that is a deprecated feature for UIAutomator2.
Currently, we have to manually download the appropriate chromedriver and add it to the /bin/ directory. I'm using Appium 1.13 and UIAutomator2, would like to be able to support 2/3 previous versions of each Android/iOS OS.
Automatic discovery of compatible Chromedriver
Beginning with Appium 1.8.0, Appium is able to pick the correct Chromedriver for the version of Chrome under test. While Appium only comes bundled with the Chromedriver most recently released at the time of the Appium version's release, more Chromedriver versions can be downloaded and either placed inside the Appium installation (not recommended since upgrading Appium will remove them) or in a custom location, which can be indicated to Appium with the chromedriverExecutableDir desired capability. This capability is the absolute path to the directory in which you have placed one or more Chromedriver executables.
As well, since new versions of Chromedriver may be available that were not when an Appium version was released, a custom mapping of Chromedrivers to the minimum Chrome version they support can be given to Appium through the chromedriverChromeMappingFile desired capability. This should be the absolute path to a file with the mapping in it. The contents of the file need to be parsable as a JSON object, like:
{
"2.42": "63.0.3239",
"2.41": "62.0.3202"
}
Link to the source:
http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/web/chromedriver/index.html
Expected:
Looking to have the framework automatically download the compatible chromedriver before each script execution.
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I am using WebDriverManager to install the drivers. However, the setup method seems to install the latest version and not the matching version on my device.
Although they differ, it seems to still work. Is it needed to specify the version to be more exact (not sure on this)?
If I wanted to specify the version, how can this be achieved?
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
This installs the latest chrome driver (say 105.1.3 but my device might have 105.1.1 as an example).
The version of Driver that you want Webdrivermanager to setupcan be configured like below, i have set to 102.0 which is what my device has installed not the latest 105
You can extract the Installed Chrome Browser version, pass it in driverVersion below to use the same
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().driverVersion("102.0").setup();
The solution is setup() will match the matching browser version (I found it in the docs after here in 3.1.1
I have set java jre jdk and set its paths (env)
I have installed eclipse
I have downloaded the Mozilla Gecko Driver and set its path (env)
I have downloaded the selenium java 3.141.59
I have added the available jars from the above into my eclipse project (external jars)
Then I have the errors;
Can not find WebDriver
Can not find FirefoxDriver
Just can’t see what am doing wrong.
Yes, there is an issue with selenium dependency 3.141.59, it does not finds FirefoxDriver() to initialize.
I used slightly lesser version 3.141.5 which worked perfectly.
Your project is not able to read your external jars(Selenium Jars) and hence you are getting errors like these.
Probable Solutions:
Remove and add the latest version of selenium jar files again.
Use Dependency management tool like Maven, which will pull the required version of selenium jars on your local machine based on the configuration provided in the POM.xml file.
You should download firefox exe file and need to set property as shown below
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:\\Selenium\\geckodriver-v0.20.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("passurl");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
I was trying to execute my QAF framework in my local Firefox( Version 61) and I need to know how to call out firefox browser from QAF application.
driver.name=geckodriver
webdriver.gecko.driver = C:/DRIVERS/geckodriver.exe
Above one did not work. Do I need to give driver.name=firefoxDriver. Even then it did not work on QAF. Please help.
You need to set following properties for firefox:
driver.name=firefoxDriver
system.webdriver.gecko.driver=C:/DRIVERS/geckodriver.exe
You also can provide relative path like below:
system.webdriver.gecko.driver=servers/geckodriver.exe
In above case driver executable assumed under /servers.
After setting above properties if you are facing any issue then you need to check geckodriver and selenium webdriver version is compatible with the version of firefox. If you are updating selenium version above 3+ make sure to use selenium-support version 3.0.0 or use qaf latest version (2.1.14-RC1 is the latest at present).
I created webdriver project with maven. Everything was fine, but one day my tests throw an exception while they running in Firefox. My Firefox version is 11 at this moment.
In my pom file i tried to change versions, but tests still don't work:
-Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
Or
-Cannot perform native interaction: Could not load native events component.
Please, help with this issue.
I would recommend using Firefox 3.6, 9 or 10, because WebDrivers 2.19.0 and 2.20.0 (today's version) are not yet compatible with Firefox 11.
The official changelog says that version 2.19.0 enables native events in FF10. Also, the version 2.15.0 announces support for FF up to and including FF11. Seems that something got wrong there :). Downgrade to FF10 or similar and you should be good.
I upgraded to Selenium WebDriver 2.25.0 and my tests worked again.
I'm trying to set up Selenium RC with Eclipse, but when I download the .zip from the Selenium HQ website it comes with several files included. Which is the Java Client Driver that I need to include in my project?
The client driver is selenium-java-2.0b3.jar if you are using the one that is on the SeleniumHQ site. I'd recommend downloading the release candidate here, which is a more recent version. (It probably hasn't made it to the main site yet because it was uploaded only 4 hours ago.)