selenium-grid Selenium Grid Configuration Configuration Json and C# mulitple browsers

Example

Configuration

In the following paragraphs there wil be an example per browser for the configuration in Json and setup in C#.

This example expects you to have all the browsers installed and the drivers in your path variable

Microsoft Edge

C# code to create a remote webdriver

// Defining webdriver variable
RemoteWebDriver _webDriver;
// Creating Capabilities and chosing browser
capabiliteiten = DesiredCapabilities.Edge();
// Setting platform 
capabiliteiten.Platform = new Platform(PlatformType.Windows);
// Requesting remote webdriver
_webDriver = new RemoteWebDriver(_gridServerUri, capabiliteiten);

Node configuration in Json

{
    "browserName":"MicrosoftEdge",
    "platform": "WINDOWS",
    "maxIstances": 1,
    "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
}

Chrome

C# code to create a remote webdriver

// Defining webdriver variable
RemoteWebDriver _webDriver;
// Creating Capabilities and chosing browser
capabiliteiten = DesiredCapabilities.Chrome();
// Setting platform 
capabiliteiten.Platform = new Platform(PlatformType.Windows);
// Requesting remote webdriver
_webDriver = new RemoteWebDriver(_gridServerUri, capabiliteiten);

Node configuration in Json

{
    "browserName": "chrome",
    "platform": "WINDOWS",
    "maxInstances": 5,
    "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
}

Firefox

C# code to create a remote webdriver

// Defining webdriver variable
RemoteWebDriver _webDriver;
// Creating Capabilities and chosing browser
capabiliteiten = DesiredCapabilities.Firefox();
// Setting platform 
capabiliteiten.Platform = new Platform(PlatformType.Windows);
// Requesting remote webdriver
_webDriver = new RemoteWebDriver(_gridServerUri, capabiliteiten);

Node configuration in Json

{
    "browserName": "firefox",
    "platform": "WINDOWS",
    "maxInstances": 5,
    "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
}    

Opera

C# code to create a remote webdriver

// Defining webdriver variable
RemoteWebDriver _webDriver;
// Creating Capabilities
capabiliteiten = new DesiredCapabilities();
// Setting platform 
capabiliteiten.Platform = new Platform(PlatformType.Windows);
// Chosing browser
capabiliteiten.SetCapability(CapabilityType.BrowserName, "operablink");
// Requesting remote webdriver
_webDriver = new RemoteWebDriver(_gridServerUri, capabiliteiten);

Node configuration in Json

{
    "browserName": "operablink",
    "platform": "WINDOWS",
    "maxInstances": 5,
    "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
}

Platform type can be one of the following:

 PlatformType.Android;
 PlatformType.Any;
 PlatformType.Linux;
 PlatformType.Mac;
 PlatformType.Unix;
 PlatformType.Vista;
 PlatformType.Windows;
 PlatformType.WinNT;
 PlatformType.XP;