How to create a test program for Microsoft Edge with Chrome WebDriver with Selenium Java API?

Microsoft Edge is compatible with Chrome WebDriver, you can test Web applications with the Edge browser using the Chrome WebDriver, instead of the Edge WebDriver.

C:\fyicenter> type EdgeWithChromeDriver.java

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.*;
public class EdgeWithChromeDriver {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
     System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", 
        "\\fyicenter\\selenium\\edgedriver\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe");
     WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
     driver.get("http://www.google.com");
     driver.quit();
  }
}

Note that the "webdriver.chrome.driver" system property is hardcoded to connect to the Edge browser.

Compile and run it with the Selenium Client JAR file:

C:\fyicenter> javac -classpath \
  \fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar \
   EdgeWithChromeDriver.java

C:\fyicenter> java -classpath \
   .;\fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\guava-25.0-jre.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okhttp-3.11.0.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okio-1.14.0.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\commons-exec-1.3.jar \
   EdgeWithChromeDriver

[13:29:47.086] - Listening on http://localhost:6947/
1:29:50 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: OSS
[13:29:52.276] - Stopping server.

You see that the Edge browser is started and stopped correctly with no errors. This confirms that you can use Chrome WebDriver to connect to Microsoft Edge Driver.

 

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