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Selenium WebDriver is an automation tool widely popular and is useful to run tests against multiple browsers like Google Chrome browser, Firefox Browser, Internet Explorer, etc. This type of testing done on different browsers is usually known as Cross-Browser Testing.

So if we want to launch any of these browsers' drivers for testing, we have to set the corresponding executable path explicitly.

What is the traditional way of instantiating browsers in Selenium?

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/absolute/path/to/binary/chromedriver");

Why is WebDriverManager needed?

is a class that allows us to download and set the browser driver binaries without us, as developers, having to put them in automation scripts manually.

How to instantiate a browser using WebDriverManager in Selenium?

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup: checks for the latest version of the specified WebDriver binary. If the binaries are not present on the machine, then it will download the WebDriver binaries. Next, it instantiates the Selenium WebDriver instance with the ChromeDriver.

How To add WebDriverManager to a Selenium project?

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version - 3.7.1

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();

WebDriverManager.iedriver().setup();

WebDriverManager.edgedriver().setup();

WebDriverManager.operadriver().setup();

WebDriverManager.phantomjs().setup();

How to instantiate a specific browser version?

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().driverVersion("85.0.4183.38").setup();

How to instantiate a platform version (x32 or x64) using?

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().architecture(io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.Architecture.X32).setup();