Selenium 4 is the latest version of selenium & I am showing here how to use Selenium 4 with code implementation; Simon Stewart founder of selenium has announced Selenium 4 at the Selenium Conference in Bangalore which consists of few major updates and its planned to release after October 2019. But as happens in Selenium 3, Selenium 4 also delayed for some reason but now we all are very happy to see Selenium Alpha is out. And you all know there should not be any introduction required to Selenium WebDriver .All of us from the testing background & are familiar with Selenium, one of the most popular open source automation tools available in the industry.

The Selenium WebDriver 4 will be completely W3C Standardized. For example, it’s used heavily in mobile testing through tools such as Appium and iOS Driver. The W3C standard will encourage compatibility across different software implementations of the WebDriver API.

Also, a test in Selenium 3.x, on the local end (through JSON wire protocol) communicates with the browser at the End node. This requires encoding and decoding of the API. In Selenium 4, the test will directly communicate without any encoding and decoding of API requests (through the W3C Protocol), though Java bindings will be backward-compatible, but focusing more on the W3C Protocol. The JSON wire protocol will no longer be used.

It has Next Generation Selenium 4 IDE.

It has new documentation for selenium webdriver 4, also using selenium WebDriver 4 your existing scripts will not failed.

I’m Mahesh & I’m Senior Test Automation Architect with 14+ Years of Experience in software test automation. In my current role, I explore new technologies and tools in the market, introduce them to our test processes and bring value to the organization. Also, providing technical architecture; defining strategic direction for testing automation practices.

My Expertise,
• Functional/Web UI Automation Testing (Using Selenium – with Java, C# & Python)
• API Automation Testing (Using Rest-Assured –Java)
• Mobile Automation Testing (Using APPIUM – Java)
• Load & Performance Testing (Using JMeter & Explore BlazeMeter)
• Desktop Application Automation (Using AutoIT – Java)
• IoT Devices/Hardware Automation (Using Open Source Library – Java, Python)