Company
Date Published
Author
Faisal Khatri
Word count
3854
Language
English
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None

Summary

Selenium 4.11.0 introduces several enhancements, with a significant focus on Selenium Manager, a tool designed to automate driver management for browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. This tool, still in its beta phase, eliminates the need for manually updating browser drivers by automatically discovering, downloading, and caching them, streamlining the process for automation test engineers. The latest version also includes support for managing Chrome for Testing, a new release by Google that targets web application testing, allowing for automated management of Chrome browser versions from 113 and above. This update comes as a relief for testers, as it simplifies testing by handling browser and driver versions seamlessly, sparing them the intricacies of manual browser management. These improvements make Selenium 4.11.0 a robust choice for those seeking efficient web automation testing, as it now supports automated testing on Chrome's upcoming versions, including beta, dev, and canary, without requiring the browser to be pre-installed on the local machine.