How to obtain native logger in Selenium WebDriver

Question

Is it possible to obtain the logger somehow that Selenium WebDriver uses? I want to capture a transcript of all the commands that were issued (eg: open, wait, click, etc). I

Answer 1

I'm using log4j for logging as utils logger is the most easiest and straight forward one that, that can be used (IMHO).

POM dependencies:

           org.apache.cassandra
          cassandra-all
          0.8.1
      

      
          org.slf4j
          slf4j-api
          1.6.6
      
      
          org.slf4j
          jcl-over-slf4j
          1.6.6
          runtime
      
      
          org.slf4j
          jul-to-slf4j
          1.6.6
          runtime
      
      
          org.slf4j
          log4j-over-slf4j
          1.6.6
          runtime
      

imports are following:

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

usage:

private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(classname.class);

and then just use it as such:

logger.info ("butonCLick");
driver.findElement(By.id("blablabla")).click();

Hope this works for you.