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How to capture the screenshot of a specific element rather than entire page using Selenium Webdriver?

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We can get the element screenshot by cropping entire page screenshot as below: driver.get(“http://www.google.com”); WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.id(“hplogo”)); // Get entire page screenshot File screenshot = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE); BufferedImage fullImg = ImageIO.read(screenshot); // Get the location of element on the page Point point = ele.getLocation(); // Get width and height of the element int eleWidth = … Read more

XPath: difference between dot and text()

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There is a difference between . and text(), but this difference might not surface because of your input document. If your input document looked like (the simplest document one can imagine given your XPath expressions) Example 1 <html> <a>Ask Question</a> </html> Then //a[text()=”Ask Question”] and //a[.=”Ask Question”] indeed return exactly the same result. But consider … Read more

What is the difference between a CSS and XPath selector? And which is better with respect to performance for cross-browser testing?

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CSS selectors perform far better than XPath selectors, and it is well documented in Selenium community. Here are some reasons: XPath engines are different in each browser, hence making them inconsistent Internet Explorer does not have a native XPath engine, and therefore Selenium injects its own XPath engine for compatibility of its API. Hence we … Read more

release Selenium chromedriver.exe from memory

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per the Selenium API, you really should call browser.quit() as this method will close all windows and kills the process. You should still use browser.quit(). However: At my workplace, we’ve noticed a huge problem when trying to execute chromedriver tests in the Java platform, where the chromedriver.exe actually still exists even after using browser.quit(). To … Read more

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

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I solved these kinds of problems using the webdrive manager. You can automatically use the correct chromedriver by using the webdrive-manager. Install the webdrive-manager: pip install webdriver-manager Then use the driver in python as follows from selenium import webdriver from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install()) This answer is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/52878725/10741023

How to run Selenium WebDriver test cases in Chrome

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You need to download the executable driver from: ChromeDriver Download Then use the following before creating the driver object (already shown in the correct order): System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “/path/to/chromedriver”); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); This was extracted from the most useful guide from the ChromeDriver Documentation.

Can Selenium interact with an existing browser session?

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This is a duplicate answer **Reconnect to a driver in python selenium ** This is applicable on all drivers and for java api. open a driver driver = webdriver.Firefox() #python extract to session_id and _url from driver object. url = driver.command_executor._url #”http://127.0.0.1:60622/hub” session_id = driver.session_id #’4e167f26-dc1d-4f51-a207-f761eaf73c31′ Use these two parameter to connect to your driver. … Read more