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How to resolve the issue with the browser is being closed when start running testng using Edge driver

I have a couple issues when I run the test with edge web browser.
The first issue is that every time I run the test by run as > testng test , the automation will close all the existing open edge web browser and then it will open a brand new edge browser but it is blank (could not load the url)
The second issue is that the automation would only load the url if I manually close all of the existing edge browser.
Is there a way to fix these issues? please help me thank you in advance.
Here is my code
public class OpenThePageUsingEdge {
public String baseUrl = "https://catalog-qa.baylorgenetics.com/search";
String driverPath = "C:\\Eclipse\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe";
public WebDriver driver ;
//initiate NameofInsured as the GenerateData class
//GenerateData NameOfAddrecipients;
#BeforeTest
public void setup(ITestContext ctx) {
TestRunner runner = (TestRunner) ctx;
runner.setOutputDirectory("J:\\zzQA Selenium Automation Suite\\Test Results");
}
#Test
public void openThePageusingEdge () throws InterruptedException {
System.out.println("launching Edge browser");
System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", driverPath);
driver = new EdgeDriver();
driver.get(baseUrl);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Why is my selenium webdriver opening blank windows of "data;"

I'm trying to set up my webdriver so that it can execute tests in parallel from the xml sheet, this it does, but I find sometimes it opens up blank chrome windows of "data;"
I've researched around other questions and all the answers seem to say things about putting the webdriver as a new threadlocal<RemoteWebDriver>, which I am already doing.
This is the WebDriverSetup.java file I am using:
public class WebDriverSetup {
private static ThreadLocal<RemoteWebDriver> threadDriver = null;
public WebDriver driver(){
return threadDriver.get();
}
#BeforeMethod
public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException {
//Set up the path to the chromedriver so that the user will not have problems if they don't have the system path variable set up.
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", TestExecutor.projectDirectory + "/chromedriver.exe");
//Set the hub URL
String seleniumUrl = "http://" + TestExecutor.hubUrl + "/wd/hub";
//Turn off logging because as of selenium-standalone-server-3.0.1, there
//is an "INFO" message that appears in console that could be mistaken for
//an error message.
Logger.getLogger("org.openqa.selenium.remote").setLevel(Level.OFF);
//threadDriver needs to be on its own local thread
threadDriver = new ThreadLocal<RemoteWebDriver>();
//Set chromeoptions so they open headless on the VM, but the VM imagines the
//tests as if chrome was running full screen on a desktop session.
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080");
//Apply the options to the chromedriver session.
URL seleniumHubURL = new URL(seleniumUrl);
threadDriver.set(new RemoteWebDriver(seleniumHubURL, options));
}
}
and this is how I am calling it from my test:
public class Demo_1_Filter_Users_By_Firstname extends TestBase.ClassGlobals
{
private WebDriverSetup webDriverSetup;
private EventFiringWebDriver driver;
private File logFile;
#Test
public void main(){
//The main method
driver.get("web_application_url");
}
#BeforeMethod
public void testSetup() throws IOException {
//Setup the webdriver
webDriverSetup = new WebDriverSetup();
driver = new EventFiringWebDriver( webDriverSetup.driver() );
//Set up an eventhandler on the event so that all the logging functions work
EventHandler handler = new EventHandler();
driver.register( handler );
//Setup the logfile
logFile = commonMethods.newLogFile();
//Log
commonMethods.log(logFile, "------TEST STARTED------");
}
#AfterMethod
public void testClosure(){
//Close webdriver session, log test done etc
}
}
The error that I am experiencing doesn't happen every time, and I don't understand why the window is hanging on data; even though the first line of my main method is to create a new webdriver session, and then using that session, open the web application through driver.get()
I am using chromedriver version 2.41

The latest stable version of ChromeDriver (88.0.4324.96) appears to have fixed this:
Resolved issue 3641: Page not getting loaded/rendered when browser window is not in focus with Chrome Beta v87 and chromedriver v(87/86)
I've been having this issue for a while and updating my chromedriver.exe file finally solved it.

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: desired capabilities error

After the attempt to run my tests I always get:
org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{platformVersion=6.0, platformName=Android, deviceName=Xiomi}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}]
java-client 5.0.0 beta 9
Appium 1.6.5
selenium standalone 3.4.0
Using Android Studio
public class MyTest1 {
AppiumDriver driver;
#Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, "Android");
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Xiomi");
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_VERSION, "6.0");
URL url = new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub");
driver = new AppiumDriver(url, desiredCapabilities);
}
#After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
driver.quit();
}
#Test
public void Test(){
}
}
Please help! I can't understand what am I doing wrong

I've added next desired capabilities and exception stopped occurring:
desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.package.app");
desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appActivity", ".activities.App");
// Add real app package and activity instead of mine.

Run exe file using selenium webdriver

How can I run exe file using selenium webdriver. If i can run the exe file then i can automate the windows window using auto it tool and can run those exe using java selenium. it would help in browsing the file in Selenium

Yes, you can do that.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("path to the autoIt exe file");
Ex:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("E:\\Softwares\\Testing\\FileIUploadAutoit.exe");
Here is the small example of uploading a file to website using Selenium WebDriver java using TestNG
public class autoitclass {
public WebDriver driver;
#BeforeTest
public void websitemain()
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "E:\\Softwares\\Testing\\geckodriver.exe");
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
String URL = "http://www.megafileupload.com/";
driver.get(URL);
}
#Test
public void uploadFile() throws Throwable{
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//a[contains(#class,'slider-btn')]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='initialUploadSection']")).click();
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("E:\\Softwares\\Testing\\FileIUploadAutoit.exe");
}
#AfterTest
public void quit(){
driver.quit();
}

You cannot test standalone apps(desktop) using selenium(Some me please correct me if incorrect),exception being apps developed using Electron. When you compile and build an electron project you get an Exe which selenium can interact and test.
The following example demo how to interact :
public void TestSampleGooglePlayElectronApp()
{
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.BinaryLocation = #"C:\MySampleElectronApp\MyApp.exe";
DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
capability.SetCapability(CapabilityType.BrowserName, "Chrome");
capability.SetCapability("chromeOptions", chromeOptions);
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//paper-button[contains(text(),'Sign in')]")).Click();
}

Appium startActivity() Function

I am new to Appium, In my code I have given required desired capabilities and wrote one test case that is working fine. Now I want to launch another App for second test in same code , how can I do that ?
I heard about startActivity(app-package,app Activity) but its not working, it says startActivity() not defined for Web Driver .
public class Calculator {
WebDriver driver;
#BeforeClass
public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException{
//Set up desired capabilities and pass the Android app-activity and app-package to Appium
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Android");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "4.4");
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "14085521650378");
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.calculator2"); // This is package name of your app (you can get it from apk info app)
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity","com.android.calculator2.Calculator");
configurations specified in Desired Capabilities
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:9515/wd/hub"), capabilities);
}
#Test
public void testCal(){
driver.findElement(By.name("2")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("+")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("4")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("=")).click();
}
#Test
public void Test2() { driver.startActivity("appPackage", "com.tttk.apc","appActivity","com.tttk.apc.DWDemoActivity");
for(int i=0; i<20;i++)
driver.findElement(By.className("android.widget.ImageButton")).click();
}
#AfterClass
public void teardown(){
//close the app
driver.quit();
}}

Seems like you are trying to use the method with a WebDriver instance.
The startActivity method is provided by an interface StartsActivity implemented by AndroidDriver only. So ideally this shall work :
((AndroidDriver) driver).startActivity(<appPackage>, <appActivity>);

public static void start() {
try {
((AndroidDriver) driver).startActivity("com.example.test", "com.example.LaunchApp");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
You have to enter your app package name and activity name to maximize the app.