Working with InternetExplorerDriver
Internet Explorer is the most commonly used browser in the world, followed by Firefox and Google Chrome, so getting IEDriver working is a high priority. The current version IEDriver supports IE6 through to IE9 so that you will be able to test websites that work on old browsers right up to the latest version of the browser.
Note
If you haven't downloaded IEDriverServer, you will need to do it now for the following section. You will also need to set an environment path to where it is so that InternetExplorerDriver in Java will know where to get it. This is similar to what we did for the ChromeDriver earlier.
On Windows, set PATH=$PATH;\path\to\chromedriver
.
In this section, we will get the text of the element on the page. This is something that most people have to do to check that the right things are happening on the page.
We will need to instantiate InternetExplorerDriver and the getText()
call on the element. Let's get to it:
Update the
setUp()
method to load...