Driver Sessions (original) (raw)

Starting and stopping a session is for opening and closing a browser.

Creating Sessions

Creating a new session corresponds with the W3C command for New session

The session is created automatically by initializing a new Driver class object.

Each language allows a session to be created with arguments from one of these classes (or equivalent):

• Options to describe the kind of session you want; default values are used for local, but this is required for remote
• Some form of HTTP Client configuration (the implementation varies between languages)
• Listeners

Local Driver

The primary unique argument for starting a local driver includes information about starting the required driver service on the local machine.

• Service object applies only to local drivers and provides information about the browser driver

    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

            driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

      driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome, options: options

    let driver = new Builder()
        .forBrowser(Browser.CHROME)
        .setChromeOptions(options)
        .setChromeService(service)
        .build();

Remote Driver

The primary unique argument for starting a remote driver includes information about where to execute the code. Read the details in the Remote Driver Section

Quitting Sessions

Quitting a session corresponds to W3C command for Deleting a Session.

Important note: the quit method is different from the close method, and it is recommended to always use quit to end the session

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