Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

Multiplying windows

Web applications, unfortunately, do not live in one window of your browser. An example of this can be a site that shows reports. Most reports will have their own window so that people can easily move between them.

Unfortunately, in testing terms, this can be quite difficult to do, but in this section, we will have a look at creating a test that can move between windows.

Working with multiple windows

Working with multiple browser windows can be one of the most difficult things to do within a Selenium test. This is down to the fact that the browser needs to allow Selenium to programmatically know how many child browser processes have been spawned.

In the following examples, we will see the tests click on an element on the page that ...