Using Selenium webdriver for Internet Explorer. Tests won't run

Question

I\'m currently expanding my tests to cover Internet Explorer using Selenium webdriver for IE (IEDriverServer.exe).

My issue is that when I execute my tests using th

Answer 1

IE Selenium

Use Desired Capabilities and disable the protection mode in IE-Browser

// Tomcat:apache-tomcat-7.0.37\webapps\ROOT\iedriver32\IEDriverServer.exe

String dreiverFromServer = "http://localhost:8088/iedriver32/IEDriverServer.exe"
File ietmp = File.createTempFile("iedriver", null).setExecutable(true);
FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL( dreiverFromServer ), ietmp);
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", ietmp.getAbsolutePath());
                     (OR)
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "D:\\iedriver64\\IEDriverServer.exe");

DesiredCapabilities ieCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
ieCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ensureCleanSession", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreZoomSetting", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignore-certificate-error", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieCapabilities);

IE 11 to set a registry entry on the target computer so that driver can maintain a connection

Answer 2

Internet explorer is very slow when you ran your test in fire fox its worked fine because firefox search is very fast add proper waits and increase time out to locate objects increase that time to 2 min = 120 sec

C# example is

InternetExplorerDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(@"c:\path", options, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2));