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New tricks with Chromium Edge and msedgedriver.exe

May 25, 2020 Alexander

Since the release of Edge 81 last month, it has its own WebDriver exectuable: “msedgedriver.exe” I have been playing with it recently and thought I would share some new tricks that you couldn’t do with the old edgehtml based Edge browser and Selenium WebDriver. Chromium Edge is natively supported in the pre-release Selenium WebDriver version 4, but in this post I will look at what you can do using the current stable version 3.14.59. (Microsoft info here) The WebDriver Executable…

WebDrivers with culture – Testing internationalisation

January 29, 2020 Alexander

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Building a .Net Core PageFactory Framework

A look into testing your i18n (internationalization) support using Selenium WebDriver. Everything you need to know in one blog post.

FAQ – “New Microsoft Edge” and test automation

January 21, 2020 Alexander

If you follow browser development at all you can’t have helped but noticed Microsoft making a huge song and dance about the latest version of the Edge browser. It does potentially cause some changes for those of us who are responsible for testing cross browser support, so I thought I would try to put together a list of questions and answers. It is brand new and I certainly don’t know everything, so if you have more questions, or want to…

Finally JUnit 5 has native support in Gradle

April 7, 2018 Alexander

As promised, this time I am taking a look at the support that is offered for JUnit 5 now that we are more than 6 months past the official release of JUnit 5. If you have read through the process of developing this test suite, you will be aware that I had to use JUnit’s own JUnitPlatform Gradle plugin to run my test suite. This works just fine, but it is clunky, requires a LOT of code and most frustratingly…

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