Extending our capabilities by using a Selenium-Grid

Since we already have a working Maven implementation, let's enhance it so that it can connect to Selenium-Grid. These enhancements will enable you to connect to any Selenium-Grid, but we are going to specifically look at connecting to a third-party service provided by SauceLabs, since they offer a free tier. Let's have a look at the modifications we need to make to our TestNG code.

We will start off with the modifications to our POM; initially, we are going to add some properties that we can configure on the command line by using this code:

<properties>     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-      8</project.build.sourceEncoding>     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF- 8</project.reporting.outputEncoding> ...

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