Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

Introduction

Up to now, the WebDriver class has supported running browser and mobile tests from a local IDE of choice, and IntelliJ as a standard practice. In that context, browsers can be tested for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE/MS-Edge (if running Windows), and Safari (if running iOS). For mobile devices, the local choices are somewhat limited: Android phones and tablets for Linux and Windows environments, iPhone and iPad for iOS environments.

Now, what if there is a need for compatibility testing on, say, 10 different browser/platform combinations, and 10 different mobile device/platform combinations? It becomes a little cumbersome to try and test those using local development environments.

This is where the Selenium Grid Architecture comes ...