TestComplete and Selenium
Does anybody have suggestions or thoughts on using TestComplete along side Selenium? I perform a lot of testing in Desktop and WEB at the same time. Much of our our testing involves performing a...
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AlexKaras wrote:-- Selenium cannot connect to the already running browser.
I did not know this. Thanks for that information. I will keep it in mind.
I was planning to have my entire process driven by the Python code I right to work with Selenium. I currently use a custom framework we built to drive all our testing. I would convert this framework into python and use selenium webdriver commands for all WEB testing and call TestComplete to perform Desktop testing.
We use a keyword approach for our automated testing and our keyword testcases are actually built in Excel files. So, the amount of "code" is actually a lot less than somebody that builds all of their tests in TestComplete.
mfoster711 wrote:
AlexKaras wrote:-- Selenium cannot connect to the already running browser.
I did not know this. Thanks for that information. I will keep it in mind.
I think selenium can connect to an already running browser by --remote-debugging-port
atleast i have a test in our testcomplete project that does following:
- starts our desktop application and initiates login process [this step is executed with testcomplete]
-> WebView2 window opens (which is edge embedded in a webview2 window)
- starts our selenium login test via commandline (nunit + selenium c# + edgedriver)
-> selenium test then does the following: connects to the already running webview2 window by remote debugging port and executes the login steps
Not sure for other browsers but i think chromium based browsers have the --remote-debugging-port option that allows the webdriver to attach itself to the running browser instance
For an example see -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/how-to/webdriver
Hi,
> I think selenium can connect to an already running browser by --remote-debugging-port
atleastHm-m-m... Interesting... While this sounds like some kind of non-standard use of web driver, I will go through the information that you provided.
Thank you for this info.
