Question

How to do session handling in Selenium Webdriver?

Answer 1

Hey Lalita, you can perform following steps to handle different sessions in Selenium Webdriver:

1. Create Tests by defining different sessions:

   • public class CreateSessions {
     @Test    
     public void createSession1(){
     //First session of WebDriver
     System.setProperty("WebDriver.chrome.driver","..\\chromedriver.exe");
     WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
     driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
     driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='lst-ib']")).sendKeys("Test");
     driver.close();
     }
     @Test    
     public void createSession2(){
     //Second session of WebDriver
     System.setProperty("WebDriver.chrome.driver","..\\chromedriver.exe");
     WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
     driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
     driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='lst-ib']")).sendKeys("Test");
     driver.close();
     }      
     }

2. Next, configure the testng.xml file by adding parallel attribute to the suite tag:

   • <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
     <suite name="TestSuite" thread-count="3" parallel="methods" >
     <test name="test">
     <classes>
     <class name="tests.CreateSessions">
     </class>
     </classes>
     </test>
     </suite>

3. Now run the testng.xml file. You will note that the two test methods have created 2 sessions with unique Session Ids and they are running parallelly.