Selenium Tips & Tricks
https://practicetestautomation.com/practice-test-login/ Comparison Differnt Versions of Selenium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 // Selenium 2, 3 (Manual driver setup) System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); // Selenium 4.0 – 4.5 (Using external WebDriverManager) import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager; WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup(); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); // Selenium 4.6+ to 4.38 (Built-in Selenium Manager — current) WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); // No setup needed Best Practices 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 // Window management driver.manage().window().maximize(); // Cookies driver.get("https://www.google.com"); driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("TestCookie", "12345")); // Timeouts — Best Practice driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(10)); // for element search driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(20)); // for full page load driver.manage().timeouts().scriptTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10)); // for JS scripts // Example: delete old cookies at start driver.manage().deleteAllCookies(); driver.manage() – Overview Category Common Methods Purpose Window maximize(), minimize(), fullscreen(), setSize(), setPosition() Control browser window Cookies getCookies(), addCookie(), deleteAllCookies() Manage session cookies Timeouts implicitlyWait(), pageLoadTimeout(), scriptTimeout() Control how Selenium waits for operations Timeouts — driver.manage().timeouts() Method Description implicitlyWait(Duration time) Wait for elements to appear pageLoadTimeout(Duration time) Max time to wait for page to load scriptTimeout(Duration time) Max time for asynchronous scripts (JS) Sample Test Case You are a Selenium Java expert. I need to automate a simple task: ...