Company
Date Published
Author
Boni Garcia
Word count
489
Language
English
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None

Summary

Selenium Manager is a new tool developed to simplify environment setup for anyone running Selenium tests. It was created to address the frustration of configuring browser drivers, especially with the shortened release cycles of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers. With Selenium Manager, users can easily configure their environment without having to manually download and install drivers. The tool has been built using lessons learned from WebDriverManager and is now part of the official Selenium project. It provides a robust mechanism for detecting browser versions, downloading drivers, and making them available for Selenium WebDriver. Selenium Manager is still in development, but it aims to improve the user experience by reducing the time needed to run tests and simplifying environment configuration. The tool is now included with each official Selenium binding, so users can easily get started with Selenium Manager by updating their project to release 4.6.0.