Selenium RemoteWebDriver usage

This is a write up about how to use RemoteWebDriver for all browsers

To start the server java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar
When you start the server, chrome and firefox will work

Because the official documentation says

Client mode: where the language bindings connect to the remote instance. This is the way that the FirefoxDriver, OperaDriver and the RemoteWebDriver client normally work.

Server mode: where the language bindings are responsible for setting up the server, which the driver running in the browser can connect to. The ChromeDriver works in this way.

For internet Explorer and Chrome where language bindings are responsible for setting up the server start the server like



For Internet Explorer
C:\selenium>java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar -Dwebdriver.ie.driver="C:\selenium\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.48.0\IEDriverServer.exe"

For Chrome
C:\selenium>java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\selenium\<path to chrome driver>

When you want to use multiple instance of same browser or multiple browser on same remote machine use GRID


Working with Internet Explorer 
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Start the remote server using the following command

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar -Dwebdriver.ie.driver="C:\selenium\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.48.0\IEDriverServer.exe"

Below code will open ie browser at remote location  10.129.63.183:4444
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);  
is used to ignoreProtectedModeSettings for several zones in IE.

      public static void ieRemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver rwd) {  
       DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();  
       desiredCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);  
       try {  
       rwd = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://10.129.63.183:4444/wd/hub"), desiredCapabilities);  
       } catch (MalformedURLException e) {  
       // TODO Auto-generated catch block  
       e.printStackTrace();  
       }  
      }  

Below code will open ie browser at remote location  10.129.63.183:4444 
and will print browser details

      public static void ieRemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver rwd) {  
           DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();  
           desiredCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,  
                     true);  
           try {  
                rwd = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://10.129.63.183:4444/wd/hub"), desiredCapabilities);  
                Capabilities actualCapabilityes = rwd.getCapabilities();  
                System.out.println(actualCapabilityes.getVersion());  
                System.out.println(actualCapabilityes.getBrowserName());  
                System.out.println(actualCapabilityes.getPlatform());  
           } catch (MalformedURLException e) {  
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block  
                e.printStackTrace();  
           }  
      }  

For setting Capability for browser selection . Common for all browsers

Key	Type	Description
browserName	string	The name of the browser being used; should be one of {android|chrome|firefox|htmlunit|internet explorer|iPhone|iPad|opera|safari}.
version	string	The browser version, or the empty string if unknown.
platform	string	A key specifying which platform the browser should be running on. This value should be one of {WINDOWS|XP|VISTA|MAC|LINUX|UNIX|ANDROID}. When requesting a new session, the client may specify ANY to indicate any available platform may be used. For more information see [GridPlatforms]

Setting desired capability for browser name

DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

desiredCapabilities.setBrowserName("internet explorer");

desiredCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,

true);

OR

   DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();  
           desiredCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,  
                     true);  

Setting desired capability for Version, Platform (example)
desiredCapabilities.setCapability("platform", Platform.ANY);

desiredCapabilities.setCapability("version", "11");

• For a list of capability specific to Internet Explorer please refer HERE

Working with Chrome Driver 
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Start the server in remote machine

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\selenium\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"