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To use the Selenium framework for automation testing, you should have a corresponding Selenium WebDriver (e.g., Chrome WebDriver for Chrome, Geckodriver for Firefox, etc.) installed on the machine, learn more about What Is Selenium & its importance. However, in Selenium automation testing with Safari on macOS, there is no need to download Safari driver for Selenium WebDriver separately.

Starting from Safari 10 on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, the browser provides native support for the Selenium WebDriver API. As Selenium Safari driver for mac is preloaded on the OS, you need not mention the executable path for creating the Selenium WebDriver object.

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For using the Selenium safaridriver for automation testing, you only require Safari 10 (or later) installed on the machine since there is native support for Selenium WebDriver API in those Safari versions.

Even though native support for the Selenium WebDriver API is available in Safari 10 (and above), the WebDriver support is turned off by default. Follow the below-mentioned steps for enabling WebDriver support in Safari:

The safaridriver preloads Web Inspector and JavaScript debugger in the background when the Safari:automaticInspection capability is passed in a New Session request. Like the Inspect tool, you also have the option to pause the test execution for checking the execution details in the Debugger tab of Web Inspector.

The safaridriver preloads Web Inspector and starts timeline recording in the background when the Safari:automaticProfiling capability is passed in a New Session request. The details can be viewed in the Timeline tab of the Web Inspector.

A Glass Pane is installed over the Safari window, where the execution of the automation test is in progress. The glass pane intends to block any interactions such as a mouse, keyboard, resizing, closing, minimizing, etc., that can be performed manually and can hinder the test being performed in the Automation Window.

However, there is a way to break the glass pane if the test in progress is stuck (or failed) or you want to check something in the automation window manually. Once the glass pane is broken, the Selenium test automation session is interrupted, and the automation window continues to remain open for further inspection until it is closed manually.

At a time, you can only attach one WebDriver session to the instance of the Safari browser. Hence, only one Safari instance and WebDriver session attached to it can be active during automation testing.

We would be using the PyTest framework for the demonstration. For a quick recap about PyTest, you can refer to this detailed Selenium WebDriver tutorial. You can install PyTest on macOS by triggering the command pip install pytest on the terminal. You can also Cross Browser Test on mac Elcapitan Browsers Online or test on mac yosemite.

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When you run a WebDriver test against almost any driver, you need an OS-specific binary file to act as an intermediary between your test and the browser you want to manipulate. The main drivers, and where you can download them from, are listed below:

If you cannot or do not want to download the WebDriver binaries automatically using WebDriverManager (for example, if you are in a corporate network which does not have access to the WebDriverManager binaries), you can download the binaries and configure them directly in the serenity.conf file.

In this case you need to either have the correct driver binary on your system path, or provide the path to the binary using the system property shown in the table above. For example, your serenity.conf file might contain the following:

However, adding a system path to your serenity.properties file is poor practice, as it means your tests will only run if the specified directory and binary exists, and that you are running the tests on the correct operating system. This obviously makes little sense if you are running your tests both locally, and on a CI environment.

A more robust approach is to have your drivers in your source code, but have different drivers per OS. Serenity allows you to pass driver-specific properties to a driver, as long as they are prefixed with drivers.os. For example, the following line will configure the webdriver.chrome.driver if you are running your tests under windows.

This approach also works when you have more than one driver to configure. Suppose you need to run tests on three environments, using Firefox or Windows. One convenient approach is to store your drivers in a directory structure under src/test/resources similar to the following:

W3C capabilities are a standard set of driver features that every drive implementation must support. You can configure W3C capabilities in the wenbdriver.capabilities section of your serenity.conf file, as shown here:

In older versions of Serenity, we used the chrome.switches property to define Chrome options. This property is not supported as of version 3.3.0, so you should use the W3C standard "goog:chromeOptions" capability for this instead.

You can define ChromeDriver arguments in the args property to set various startup options. For example, to start Chrome in maximized mode, you can use the start-maximized argument. Or if you want to run Chrome in headless mode, you can use the "headless" argument:

By default, ChromeDriver configures Chrome to allow pop-up windows. If you want to block pop-ups (i.e., restore the normal Chrome behavior when it is not controlled by ChromeDriver), you can use the excludeSwitches option as follows:

Microsoft Edge is a Chromium driver, so the configuration is very similar to Chrome. The main difference is the use of "ms:edgeOptions'" instead of "goog:chromeOptions". A typical configuration is shown below:

You can configure multiple driver configurations by using the environments section, as shown below. Then simply set the environment system property to the corresponding environment to use these settings, e.g.

Starting Safari 10, the safaridriver is pre-installed if Safari is installed in your OS. You don't need to explicitly install the if you have the Safari browser installed. Support for the legacy safaridriver has been removed in recent versions of Selenium, which you can track here.

This is Appium driver for automating Safari on macOS and iOS since version 13.The driver only supports Safari automation using W3C WebDriver protocol.Under the hood this driver is a wrapper/proxy over Apple's safaridriver binary. Check the output of man safaridriver command to get more details on the supported features and possible pitfalls.

Selenium WebDriver is a library that allows controlling web browsers programmatically. It provides a cross-browser API that can be used to drive web browsers (e.g., Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, among others) using different programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, or Ruby). The primary use of Selenium WebDriver is implementing automated tests for web applications.

Selenium WebDriver carries out the automation using the native support of each browser. For this reason, we need to place a binary file called driver between the test using the Selenium WebDriver API and the browser to be controlled. Examples of drivers for major web browsers nowadays are chromedriver (for Chrome), geckodriver (for Firefox), or msedgedriver (for Edge). As you can see in the following picture, the communication between the WebDriver API and the driver binary is done using a standard protocol called W3C WebDriver (formerly the so-called JSON Wire Protocol). Then, the communication between the driver and the browser is done using the native capabilities of each browser.

Download. Drivers are platform-specific binary files. To download the proper driver, we have to identify the driver type we need (e.g., chromedriver if we want to use Chrome), the operating system (typically, Windows, Linux, or Mac OS), the architecture (typically, 32 or 64 bits), and very important, the driver version. Concerning the version, each driver release is usually compatible with a given browser version(s). For this reason, we need to discover the correct driver version for a specific browser release (typically reading the driver documentation or release notes).

Setup. Once we have downloaded the driver to our computer, we need to provide a way to locate this driver from our Selenium WebDriver tests. In Java, this setup can be done in two different ways. First, we can add the driver location to our PATH environmental variable. Second, we can use Java system properties to export the driver path. Each driver path should be identified using a given system property, as follows:

Maintenance. Last but not least, we need to warranty the compatibility between driver and browser in time. This step is relevant since modern browsers automatically upgrade themselves (i.e., they are evergreen browsers), and for this reason, the compatibility driver-browser is not warranted in the long run. For instance, when a WebDriver test using Chrome faces a driver incompatibility, it reports the following error message: "this version of chromedriver only supports chrome version N." As you can see in StackOverflow, this is a recurrent problem for manually managed drivers (chromedriver in this case).

WebDriverManager is an open-source Java library that carries out the management (i.e., download, setup, and maintenance) of the drivers required by Selenium WebDriver (e.g., chromedriver, geckodriver, msedgedriver, etc.) in a fully automated manner. In addition, as of version 5, WebDriverManager provides other relevant features, such as the capability to discover browsers installed in the local system, building WebDriver objects (such as ChromeDriver, FirefoxDriver, EdgeDriver, etc.), running browsers in Docker containers seamlessly, and monitoring capabilities.