retaining cache in firefox and chrome browser - Selenium WebDriver
caching, firefox, google-chrome, selenium
Solution
The problem is, that selenium copies every startup a new (firefox/chrome) profile to the temp directory and starts firefox/chrome with it. However, it is possible to always use the same profile for your test instances. I think this way you can get it working faster.
For firefox you just need to do these steps: 1. Load your webapp in a selenium firefox instance and don't close it afterwards (not driver.close();). 2. Then go to Help->Troubleshooting Information and open the folder under Profile folder. 3. Copy its content to a new folder near your test code. 4. Load the saved Profile in your test code. You can do it this way:
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File("profile/folder/path"));
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
I think you can do this in chrome analogous.
Problem
Currently our web application takes around 3 mins to load completely without caching and 10 secs with caching. When I open the app through WebDriver its taking around 3 mins to load i.e. caching is not used. I observed this on Firefox and Chrome browser. Not sure how to enabled the driver to use cache instead of loading each file from server every time I open the app. Here are the things I tried. 1. disabled clearing cache on browser exit in browser setting. 2. set 'applicationCacheEnabled' desiredcapabilitiy to 'true' ``` DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.firefox(); cap.setCapability("applicationCacheEnabled", "true"); WebDriver d = new FirefoxDriver(cap) ``` But nothing seems to work. Please let me know how can I make webdriver to use caching.