Tagged: webdriver

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?

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.

Continuing the previous article with concrete code examples of the ultimate automation achievable in the Germanium stack (Selenium, WebDriver, Germanium, Behave).

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

Version 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 list of changes.

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').

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

With the new release of Firefox 47, the WebDriver support was left in limbo. On one hand, the old WebDriver API is not accessible anymore, on the other hand the new API (Marionette) explicitly doesn't supports it.

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.

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