Microsoft may be distancing its new Edge browser from Internet Explorer
(IE) and its contentious past, but it is inheriting at least some developer
features.
The use of WebDriver with Edge requires running Microsoft WebDriver server
software with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 (build 10240 and above). Microsoft
halted downloads of the server after a "publishing issue" cropped up,
but the company hopes to restore the software later today (July 24).
WebDriver helps developers test complex sites, allowing them to find and
ultimately fix issues much faster than using manual methods. "It provides
a programmable remote control for developing complex user scenarios and running
them in an automated fashion against your Website in a browser," Microsoft
Edge staffers Clay Martin, program manager; John Jansen, principal software
engineer; Jatinder Mann, senior program manager lead; and Mark Conway, director
of automation testing tool specialist Micro Focus, wrote in a joint blog
post.
The tech helps developers maintain the quality of major Websites,
including Microsoft's own search engine. "WebDriver is used by top Web
properties like Bing, Azure, SharePoint, Facebook, Google and others to automate
testing their sites within a browser," they noted.
A key aim of the Edge project is to help align Windows 10 with the modern
Web. To that end, Microsoft has worked to embrace more modern,
developer-friendly Web standards. The company has even shed some hallmark IE
technologies like ActiveX to further the cause.
Microsoft is also courting developers by streamlining their cross-browser
testing workflows. "With this new capability, Microsoft Edge can be run
through the same regression testing as other browsers, helping developers
identify issues with less effort and making sites just work for our end
users," stated the group.
To enable WebDriver support, Microsoft teamed with Micro Focus and its
Borland subsidiary "to help contribute code to the WebDriver implementation
in Microsoft Edge," they revealed.
Typical of packages that allow users to dig into code, developers will
need to perform some setup. "To get started using WebDriver, you will need
to download a testing framework of your choice along with an appropriate
language binding and the Microsoft WebDriver server," stated the group.
Supported language bindings include C# and Java Selenium, with the goal of
adding more to come in the future.
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