Using selenium web driver to run test on multiple browsers

Question

I\'m trying to run a same test across multiple browsers through for loop but it always run only on Firefox.

bros = [\'FIREFOX\',\'CHROME\',\'INTERNET EXPLORER\']         


        

Answer 1

I actually have done this in java, the following works well for me:

...
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
...

DesiredCapabilities[] browsers = {DesiredCapabilities.firefox(),DesiredCapabilities.chrome(),DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer()};
    for(DesiredCapabilities browser : browsers)
    {
        try{
            System.out.println("Testing in Browser: "+browser.getBrowserName());
            driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub"), browser);
            ...

You will need to adapt this of course if you're writing your tests in a different language, I know it's possible in Java, not sure about otherwise.

Also, I agree with what you're trying to do, I think it is much better to have a class that runs the same tests with different browsers, instead of duplicating code many times over and being inelegant. If you are doing this in Java/other codes, I also highly suggest using a Page Object.

Good luck!