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Tagged: germanium-drivers

Creating WebDriver Browser Instances With Germanium's open_browser()

If you want to open a WebDriver browser instance using Selenium, you need a few steps. The binary driver available is required to be in the PATH, and you need to create a specific configuration object, depending on the browser type, to get the browser instance. In Germanium it's only open_browser("chrome"). Since Germanium is Selenium, how is that working?


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Germanium Selector Builder Alfa Release

After a lot of work over the last year, we're proud to present you the alfa release of our Germanium Selector Builder. Germanium Selector Builder is an application that can generate Selenium selectors with a simple click. It also offers functionality for visualising the matches in the browser, and full Germanium API support.


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Germanium 2.0.8 Release Notes

As usual Germanium gets a driver update, but this time, but here's the other goodies packaged in.


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Creating a Selenium Grid with Germanium

Setting up the infrastructure is simpler with the Selenium Grid that is provisioned by Germanium, and available in Docker. All the regression tests are running against the grid now.


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Germanium Offers Now Edge Support (Beta)

Version 1.10.0 offers now Edge support. In order to access it you just need to update Germanium (pip install -U germanium), and call open_browser('edge').


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Germanium 1.9.8 Changes Since Last Release

Quite a few changes happened since our last blog post announcing the availability of Germanium 1.9.3.


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Germanium 1.8.0 is Released

Finally there is no need in downloading drivers for WebDriver. With Germanium the drivers are tested and packed in.


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Germanium 1.7.14 is Released

Germanium 1.7.14 is released. select_file() allows picking files for upload, and a lot of effort was put in Firefox support. WebDriver updates for the other browsers.


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Germanium 1.7.12 Is Released

When using WebDriver fetching child nodes or the parent node of an element might be a chore. Not so with Germanium.


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