Selenium series: Environment specific handling
Blog post from Octopus Deploy
In a blog post from a series about creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework, Matthew Casperson discusses the importance of maximizing browser windows during automated testing to ensure consistent resolution across tests. The post provides a detailed example of implementing a maximizeWindow() method within an AutomatedBrowser class to resolve issues encountered when testing on the Edge browser via BrowserStack. However, the challenges of applying the same approach to mobile browsers like Android, which lack resizable windows, are addressed by overriding the maximizeWindow() method in a BrowserStackAndroidDecorator class to do nothing, thus preventing errors. This approach allows test code to be reusable across different browser types without modification, enhancing maintainability and reducing the need for device-specific code adjustments.