Determine Type of Selenium Driver in Java

Question

I'm working on building out a testing framework for some sites using selenium webdriver, and my goal is to have a number of drivers running the same tests concurrently (aka a firefoxdriver, an internetexplorerdriver, and a chromedriver all running at the same time with some shared resources). However, I'm having trouble with logging which driver is doing what. I'm passing the drivers through a lot of my code, but as far as I can tell a webdriver has no knowledge of what specific type of driver it is. Is there any way to ask a webdriver element what it was instantiated as?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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You can use instanceof like

  if( driver instanceof FirefoxDriver) {
    System.out.println("Firefox it is!!");
  }
  else if( driver instanceof ChromeDriver) {
    System.out.println("Chrome it is!!");
  }
  // and so on

For more details : What is the 'instanceof' operator used for?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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answered May 14 '15 at 13:44

Ajinkya

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Oh my god. *smacks head against desk*. Thanks. – iamthereplicant May 14 '15 at 15:07
What if our tests are executing remotely using RemoteWebDriver? – san1deep2set3hi Jul 03 '17 at 05:04
@san1deep2set3hi use `capabilities.getBrowserName()` – Ajinkya Jul 03 '17 at 06:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '17 at 17:41

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/******************************************************************************************
 * Name: getBrowserDetails | Description: Gets Browser Name and Version
 ******************************************************************************************/
public String getBrowserDetails() throws Exception {
    Capabilities caps = ((RemoteWebDriver)BaseTest.driver).getCapabilities();
    String browserName = caps.getBrowserName();
    String browserVersion = caps.getVersion();
    String browser = (browserName + " " + browserVersion).toUpperCase();
    return browser;
}

answered Oct 03 '17 at 17:41

Vasudev Reddy

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Could we have some description of how this answers the question? – Stephen Rauch Oct 03 '17 at 17:58
This returns you the Browser name , based on the browser name we can decide what type of driver it is – Vasudev Reddy Oct 04 '17 at 18:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 04 '20 at 16:13

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If using instanceof, be sure to also consider org.openqa.selenium.WrapsDriver so as to handle EventFiringWebDriver.

answered Jan 04 '20 at 16:13

Jesse Glick

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