Chromium Edge automation with selenium (best practice)

johnjansen 

Where's the NuGet package for installing the Edge Chromium drivers?

nhatekar yes. Really the best way is to update to the Alpha build of Selenium 4 because that's where we updated Selenium to recognize the new Edge browser. 

Here is just a quick C# example that works with Selenium 4 (you can get it from nuget or here:

Selenium 4 

                // EdgeOptions() requires using OpenQA.Selenium.Edge
                // Construct EdgeOptions with is_legacy = false
                var edgeOptions = new EdgeOptions(false);
                edgeOptions.BinaryLocation = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe";

                var msedgedriverDir = @"c:\drivers";
                var msedgedriverExe = @"msedgedriver.exe";


                // Construct EdgeDriverService with is_legacy = false too
                var service = EdgeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(msedgedriverDir, msedgedriverExe, false);
                service.EnableVerboseLogging = true;

                var driver = new EdgeDriver(service, edgeOptions);
                driver.Url = "http://www.example.com";

johnjansen 

Is there a straight forward way to use and launch the Edge Chromium driver with Selenium? Thank you. 

Team , I am unable to run the selenium tests in Chrome and Edge(Chromium) in parallel mode . Separately , I am able to execute tests in either of the browsers , but in parallel mode ,only one test is getting succeeded.

mmiky123 Yes, that's correct. Each browser must have it's own Driver that specifically runs that version of the browser. So if you want to automate the Old Edge, you'd use MicrosoftWebDriver. If you want to automate the new Edge, you'd use MSEdgeDriver (and for the time being, tell it where to find the EXE to launch msedge.exe instead of chrome.exe).

aseema31 for the time being (hopefully not too much longer), yes, sort-of. You want to use the Chrome* classes and explicitly point them to the msedge on your machine. When the language bindings are all updated and stable, then you can rename to use Edge* classes.

Here is a code sample in C# for what I mean:

                    var anaheimService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(@"c:\drivers", "msedgedriver.exe");
                    var anaheimOptions = new ChromeOptions
                    {
                        BinaryLocation = @"C:\Users\johnjan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application\msedge.exe"
                    };
                    //anaheimOptions.AddArgument("--headless");
                    driver = new ChromeDriver(anaheimService, anaheimOptions);