Browser Options
These capabilities are shared by all browsers.
Driver Sessions
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
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options) driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome, options: optionsRemote 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
{< gh-codeblock path="examples/java/src/test/java/dev/selenium/getting_started/FirstScript.java#L29" >}
driver.quit(){< gh-codeblock path="examples/dotnet/HelloSelenium.cs#L13" >}
driver.quit{< gh-codeblock path="examples/javascript/test/getting_started/firstScript.spec.js#L28" >}
{< gh-codeblock path="examples/kotlin/src/test/kotlin/dev/selenium/getting_started/FirstScriptTest.kt#L35" >}
