Multiple Browser WebDriver Selenium

Question

I am working on a Selenium test project where I need to launch two browsers at initial setup .

Then I need to do switching between these browsers.

So I will have [Window1] [Window2]

I would like to run test through [Window1] and then switch to [Window2] to check result of actions done in [Window1]

Any idea on how to do it?

I tried driver.switchTo().window() but no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Ajinkya · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17 08:16:41Z

driver.switchTo().window() will work only if new window is opened by any action in existing window. If you are using different drivers to open different windows then it wont work.
In such case you need to choose appropriate instance of driver to control the new window.

Suppose you have instance of webdriver

// Window 1 WebDriver chrome = new ChromeDriver() // Window 2 WebDriver firefox = new FirefoxDriver()

Now use chrome whenever you want to interact with Window 1 and use firefox to interact with Window 2.

Thanks! Any idea how to switch focus between windows generated by different driver? Thanks
Thanks @Karna I had successfully did that, thanks. But now I would like to bring the window to the front based on actions done by respective webdriver. For example, like if chrome is doing action, then the focus of window will be on Chrome browser, and the same for FF. Thanks

SiKing · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-16 16:41:33Z

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Just use two driver instancess:

WebDriver driver1 = new ChromeDriver() WebDriver driver2 = new FirefoxDriver()

You can make them both same flavour if you want.

answered Jun 16, 2014 at 16:41

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Raymond Over a year ago

Thanks! I am now able to run parallel tests. However, any idea on how to switch focus between those windows? Thanks :)

SiKing Over a year ago

I think you are very confused! Parallel tests is something different than multiple browser tests. I do not understand what you mean by "switch focus". You can use driver1.findElement(...) to access items in the first window, and similarly driver2.findElement(...) to find items in the second window.

ItsPete · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-28 06:18:27Z

You need to pass the parameter as window name or you can get all the window handles and then switch to the particular window handle.

You could use:

driver.switchTo().window("windowName");

or:

for (String handle : driver.getWindowHandles()) { driver.switchTo().window(handle); }

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