Selenium Workbook #49: View Resources on Booking (With Multiple Browser Tabs)

Work with multiple browser tabs in Selenium WebDriver.

This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Workbook” series, a set of bite-sized exercises (typically 15–20 mins). A practical and satisfying way to learn web test automation with Selenium WebDriver.

Learning Objectives

• Switch browser tab
• Close a browser tab

Test Case 49

Test Design

This continues from Exercise #48.

You must have seen this scenario before: clicking a link that opens in a new browser tab. This is controlled by HTML.

<a href="https://...." target="_blank">ObiWan Kenobi</a>

Now we have two browser tabs.

1. Which browser tab is the current driver is “pointing to”?

Print out the driver ‘s current web address, in TestWise Debugging mode to find out.