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Selenium 4.0 Alpha Release Updates

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The wait is finally over, and the Selenium 4.0 Alpha release has been launched.

The wonderful comments from Simon Mavi Stewart about Selenium 4.0 alpha release as below:

The Selenium team has not yet announced it, but Selenium 4 Alpha is available to download at the MVN Repository. The below dependency should be added to pom.xml to get the alpha version.
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From the word Alpha, we have come to know that there is a high chance it might not be stable enough. The current Selenium 4 is in an Alpha version, so it is not recommended to use for testing. We can start to use once it changes from Alpha to Beta.

Selenium 4 Alpha has undergone many significant changes, but it won’t impact your existing automation scripts.

Selenium 4.0 Alpha version Insights

  • The W3C recommendation document for Selenium WebDriver is now available. Click here for more information, which provides a crystal clear picture of how Selenium API’s are working.
  • Added driver.switchTo().parentFrame() method to switch directly to the parent frame.
  • Add pollTimeout argument to the wait() method. The default value is 200ms.
  • Replaced WebElement.getSize() and WebElement.getLocation() with a single method WebElement.getRect().
  • Basic support for using Docker containers with the new Grid Server.
  • Removed timeouts() method in driver.manage(). Suggest using getTimeouts() and setTimeouts() methods instead.
  • WebDriver implementation for Opera Browser is now removed. They are suggesting Opera users test on Chrome Browser to some extent.
  • Removed support for PhantomJS Headless mode. They are suggesting to use Chrome and Firefox Browsers in headless mode instead.
  • The Options class for every browser is now extending the Capabilities class.
Changes to Builder class
  • Added setChromeService, setEdgeService, & setFirefoxService
  • Removed setEnableNativeEvents
  • Removed setScrollBehavior
Changes to chrome.Driver
  • Added sendDevToolsCommand
  • Added setDownloadPath
Changes to firefox.Driver
  • Added installAddon(path)
  • Added uninstallAddon(id)
Changes to firefox.Options
  • Removed setLoggingPreferences (was a no-op)
  • setProfile now only accepts a path to an existing profile
  • Added addExtensions
  • Added setPreference
Changes to lib/webdriver.WebElement
  • Replaced getSize & getLocation with getRect
Changes to lib/webdriver.Alert
  • Removed authenticateAs
Changes to lib/webdriver.Options (driver.manage())
  • Removed timeouts (use get/setTimeouts)
Changes to lib/webdriver.Window (driver.manage().window()) Added

  • getRect
  • setRect
  • Fullscreen
  • minimize

Removed (use the getRect/setRect methods)

  • getPosition
  • setPosition
  • getSize
  • setSize

 

There are a lot of new changes coming up. Let’s stay tuned for further official updates from the Selenium team.

 

Reference:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/javascript/node/selenium-webdriver/CHANGES.md
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-remote-driver/4.0.0-alpha-1

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