Overview

Several new features and benefit for automated testing are included in the upcoming Selenium 4 freeing, such as:

• Relative locater

• Better window and tab managing

• Improved Selenium Grid

• Use of W3C by nonpayment under the hood

• A set of bidirectional APIs designed for intercepting network request, authentication on secure pages, hear to DOM events and more. These are presently implemented through theChrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), but in the futureWebDriver BiDiwill be employ.

Selenium 4 has been project to be a drop-in replacement, but there might be suit where tests or dependencies need to be adjusted. We recommend you to go through the next sections to understand better how this new variant will benefit you and what potential changes might be needed to elevate.

Sauce Labs has contributed to the development of Selenium 4, and thanks to that, you can rest tell that your tests will continue to work on our platform.

How to Upgrade to Selenium 4

The Selenium team has expend a good amount of time making the upgrade process as painless as potential. A few things have been deprecated, so you might hit a couple of issues while upgrading, peculiarly if you get construct custom functionalities in your testing framework. Thisguidewill show you how to move from Selenium 3 to Selenium 4.

New Features in Selenium 4

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Relative Locators

A new way of locating elements by using more natural language friendly price, such as “ above ”, “ below ”, “ leave of ”, “ right of ”, and “ near ”. In general, you could think roughly them as a way to locate elements based on the visual placement on the page. Check how to use the new Relative Locatorshere.

New Window & amp; Tab utility

Selenium 4 include a new command to help exploiter create a new tab or a new window. Check somecode instancethat show how to use it.

Print Page as PDF

Selenium 4 will allow users to print a page as a PDF through Chrome and Firefox. Examples with each browser can be seenhere.

New lineament with Firefox

The upcoming version of Selenium exposes a few new characteristic with Firefox, such as a total page screenshot, a simplified way to install add-ons, and updating Firefox preferences in the middle of the session. Check themhere.

Setting web conditions with Chrome and Edge

Selenium 4 exposes a set of utilities to modify the meshing conditions in Chromium based browsers, useful to essay web applications under different network conditions. Check the pointhere.

New Element Attribute and Property methods

Two new methods get been added to more precisely get a given component dimension or a property. It is recommended to use one of the new method for execution and preciseness, specially if you are apply Sauce Labs. Read more about themhere.

New Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid 4 has be rewritten from scratch, with all the learnings from the past. It takes advantage of modern substructure (such as Docker and distributed tracing). Read more details about ithere.

Bidirectional APIs

Selenium 4 volunteer new functionality useful for both browser mechanisation and testing, specifically with a set ofbidirectional APIS. Through it, you will get more information from the browser and more control over the application under test. While theWebDriver BiDirectional Protocolis let implemented across all browser vendors, these feature will be volunteer through theChrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). Check some examples that prove how to use ithere.

Frequently Asked Questions

Check a list of the most commonly asked questions about the upcoming Selenium versionhere.