How to open Chrome Developer console in Selenium WebDriver using JAVA

Question

I want to ask how to open the Chrome developer Console during selenium tests execution. Currently, when tests are executing, and I open the console manually hitting F12, the

Answer 1

Note: this answer does not apply to current versions of Chrome.

You can't. The Chrome driver uses the Chrome remote debugging protocol to communicate with the browser. This is the same protocol that the developer console uses also. Unfortunately, Chrome is designed so that only one client can be attached using the protocol at a time, so that means either the developer tools, or the driver, but not both simultaneously.