Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Multiple browser support

So far, we have parallelized our tests so that we can run multiple browser instances at the same time. However, we are still using only one type of driver, the good old FirefoxDriver. I mentioned problems with Internet Explorer in the previous section, but right now we have no obvious way to run our tests using Internet Explorer. Let's have a look at how we can fix this.

To start with, we will need to create a new Maven property called browser and a new configuration setting inside our Failsafe Plugin configuration called systemPropertyVariables. This is pretty much what is says on the tin; everything defined inside systemPropertyValues will become a system property that is available to your Selenium tests. We are ...