In order to execute your test cases using Internet Explorer browser, you need to configure some settings accordingly.
- Download the IEDriverServer executable and place it in the designated path (%localappdata%\QualitiaWDClient\Selenium).
- Disable Enhanced Protected Mode for IE 10 and higher. (This option is found in the Advanced tab of the Internet Options dialog).
- Set the Protected Mode settings for each zone to be the same value on IE 7 or higher on Windows Vista or Windows 7. Qualitia recommends disabling the protected mode. This will also help you in running Object Spy for object identification.
(To set the Protected Mode settings, choose "Internet Options..." from the Tools menu, and click the Security tab. For each zone, there will be a checkbox at the bottom of the tab labelled "Enable Protected Mode".) - Set the Change the size of text, apps, and other items to 100% in Display settings for Windows 10 and later.
- Set the browser zoom level to 100%. This helps to set the correct coordinates for the native mouse events.
- For IE 11, set the registry entry on the target computer so that the driver can maintain the connection to the instance of the IE it creates.
- For 32-bit Windows installations, the key you must examine in the registry editor is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE. Inside this key, create a DWORD value namediexplore.exewith the value of 0. For 64-bit Windows installations, the key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE. Inside this key, create a DWORD value namediexplore.exewith the value of 0.Info The
FEATURE_BFCACHEsubkey may or may not be present and should be created if it is not present.
- For 32-bit Windows installations, the key you must examine in the registry editor is
For more information about thisother related settings, please refer to the SeleniumHQ GitHub wiki documentation here.