Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python

Cross-browser support

So far we have built and run our script with Firefox. Selenium has extensive support for cross-browser testing where you can automate on all the major browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, and headless browsers such as PhantomJS. In this section, we will set up and run the script that we created in the previous section with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to see the cross-browser capabilities of Selenium WebDriver.

Setting up Internet Explorer

There is a little more to run scripts on Internet Explorer. To run tests on Internet Explorer, we need to download and set up the InternetExplorerDriver server. The InternetExplorerDriver server is a standalone server executable that implements WebDriver's ...