How to bring browser to front

[Snehal Biche]

I have two browsers one IE and another Chrome which will be opened by two diff. Webdriver instances. I am trying to find easy way to perform below actions -

1) Open IE browser 

2) Perform some action

3) Open Chrome browser

4) Perform some action

5) switch to IE browser

6) Perform some action

7) switch to Chrome browser

8) Perform some action

9) close both browser

Thanks,

Snehal

[darrell grainger]

You just need two instances of WebDriver. Normally one would have:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeBrowser();

and all interaction with driver would go to the Chrome browser. In your situation I would have:

WebDriver chrome = new ChromeBrowser();

WebDriver ie = new InternetExplorer();

There will obviously be more to setting up each browser instance but that is the general idea. Now if I use chrome it will send commands to the Chrome browser instance, e.g.

chrome.get("http://www.google.com");

and any use of ie would send commands to Internet Explorer, e.g.

ie.get("http://www.bing.com");

So there is no command to 'switch' to a different browser. Just using the different variable causes you to 'switch' to the other browser. Closing both browsers is really just close one browser then close the other browser, e.g.

ie.quit();

chrome.quit();

Darrell 

[praveen kumar cherukuri]

we cannot switch the focus between two different browsers (which are invoked by two different threads). 

One good tip for you to solve this issue is to share the complete screen to both these browser instances. 

Set the browser size and positions soon after you launch the browser. 

So, Ideally I mean to say, cascade the windows on the screen. (one to the right half of the screen and one to the left half of the screen). 

Would love to know if there is any other way to handle this (Special/Unique) requirement.

/Praveen. 

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[Snehal Biche]

@Darrell,

I have already tried that but I do get below exception if i try to interact with browser -

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: invalid element state

@Praveen,

Yes this is unique requirement but I think i have found the answer, I am going to use Autoit Script which has function to bringwindoToFront and bringWindowToBack based on . If that helps will post the result in thread.

my code below -

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package gridTest;

import java.io.File;

import java.util.Hashtable;

import java.util.Map;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class TwoBrowserTeset {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

//chrome configuration started

        File file = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\src\\setupEnv\\" +"chromedriver.exe");

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());

        //System.setProperty("Always.ask.where.to.save.files", true);

        Map<String, String> prefs = new Hashtable<String, String>();

        prefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", "true");

        prefs.put("download.default_directory", "C:\\");

        prefs.put("download.extensions_to_open", "pdf");

        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

        capabilities.setCapability("chrome.prefs", prefs);

           

        WebDriver wb1= new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

        //done for chrome

        

        

        File fileIE = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\src\\setupEnv\\" +"IEDriverServer.exe");

        System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", fileIE.getAbsolutePath());

        DesiredCapabilities capsIE = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

        capsIE.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IGNORE_ZOOM_SETTING, true);

        capsIE.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true);

        

        WebDriver wb2 = new InternetExplorerDriver(capsIE);

        

        

                

        //open site in Chrome

wb1.get("http://google.com");

wb1.manage().window().maximize();

//String ChromeWindowHandle = wb1.getWindowHandle();

Thread.sleep(30);

//open site in IE

wb2.get("http://seleniumsimplified.com/testpages/alert.html");

//String IEWindowHandle = wb2.getWindowHandle();

Thread.sleep(30);

//do operations on Chrome

wb1.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gs_htif0']")).sendKeys("selenium");

Thread.sleep(10);

Thread.sleep(30);

Thread.sleep(30);

wb2.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='alertexamples']")).click();

wb2.switchTo().alert().accept();

wb2.close();

wb1.close();

}

}

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Thanks,

Snehal

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[darrell grainger]

Your problem has absolutely nothing to do with instantiating two instances of WebDriver. You have the following line:

 

wb1.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gs_htif0']")).sendKeys("selenium");

You are interacting with the hidden input on the Google Search page. This is guaranteed to issue org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException. Change this line to:

wb1.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']")).sendKeys("selenium");

 

This will fix your error. There are also many other issues I have with your code. You should read http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.ca/2012/08/youre-doing-it-wrong-protected-mode-and.html. To quote Simon Stewart:

We named the capability "INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS" for a very good reason: your tests will exhibit random hangs and flakiness when you attempt to cross domains when using it.

Darrell

[Snehal Biche]

@Darrell 

Thanks a lot for your inputs, Yes you are absolutely right.

My problem was due to 32 bit OS and I was using 64 bit IE driver. 

-Snehal