Enhancing automated testing in Microsoft Edge with new WebDriver capabilities, W3C protocol support, and automatic updates
Enhancing automated testing in Microsoft Edge with new WebDriver capabilities, W3C protocol support, and automatic updates Just last week, the WebDriver specification officially became a W3C Recommendation, defining a standard way for web developers and browser engineers to automate the browser. This is a major step forward for web site and web app testing, as well as cross-browser interoperability initiatives like web-platform-tests. Over the past few months we’ve been working to implement the updated W3C dialect for WebDriver in Microsoft Edge—a generational improvement to automated testing on the web. Today’s Windows Insider Preview release (17692) includes our updated implementation, as well as making it a Feature on Demand, so it’s easier than ever to get started. WebDriver is now a Feature On Demand WebDriver needs to match the version of Microsoft Edge you’re testing against, which has historically required manually [ more… ]
