Selenium WebDriver Advanced Techniques & Frameworks 2

Question 1

Which interface must a driver implement to support taking screenshots?

Accepted Answer

TakesScreenshot

Answer

Cast the driver to TakesScreenshot and call getScreenshotAs() to capture the current browser state as an image.

Question 2

What file format does getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE) return?

Accepted Answer

A temporary PNG file

Answer

OutputType.FILE returns a temporary File object containing the screenshot in PNG format.

Question 3

What is a FluentWait in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

A configurable wait that can ignore specific exceptions and set polling frequency

Answer

FluentWait allows setting custom polling intervals, timeout durations, and exceptions to ignore during waiting.

Question 4

How do you handle a file upload dialog in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

Send the file path via sendKeys() to the file input element

Answer

File input elements accept sendKeys() with the absolute file path, bypassing the OS file dialog entirely.

Question 5

Which Selenium component is used to run tests in parallel across multiple browsers?

Accepted Answer

Selenium Grid

Answer

Selenium Grid distributes test execution across multiple machines or browsers simultaneously via a hub-node architecture.

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