Question

How to work with 2 FireFoxDrivers simultaneously? Does Selenium support multithreading?

I have the below test which opens 2 firefox browsers but both navigations happen only on the first browser instance!

  [Test]
    public void TestMultithreading()
    {
        var tasks = new List<Task>
                        {
                            new Task(goToBbc),
                            new Task(goToGoogle)
                        };

        tasks.ForEach(task => task.Start());

        Task.WaitAll(tasks.ToArray());
    }

    private void goToBbc()
    {
        openBrowserAndGoTo("http://www.bbc.com");
    }

    private void goToGoogle()
    {
        openBrowserAndGoTo("http://www.google.com");
    }

    private void openBrowserAndGoTo(string url)
    {
        var webDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
        webDriver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0));
        webDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);
        Thread.Sleep(5000);
        webDriver.Quit();
    }

Hope the question is clear.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Selenium RC/WebDriver is intended to automate a browser. If you want to run multiple tests in parallel, you should look at running your scripts through Selenium Grid/RemoteDriver.