Using Selenium webdriver for Internet Explorer. Tests won't run

Question

I\'m currently expanding my tests to cover Internet Explorer using Selenium webdriver for IE (IEDriverServer.exe).

My issue is that when I execute my tests using th

Answer 1

IE Selenium

Use Desired Capabilities and disable the protection mode in IE-Browser

// Tomcat:apache-tomcat-7.0.37\webapps\ROOT\iedriver32\IEDriverServer.exe

String dreiverFromServer = "http://localhost:8088/iedriver32/IEDriverServer.exe"
File ietmp = File.createTempFile("iedriver", null).setExecutable(true);
FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL( dreiverFromServer ), ietmp);
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", ietmp.getAbsolutePath());
                     (OR)
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "D:\\iedriver64\\IEDriverServer.exe");

DesiredCapabilities ieCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
ieCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ensureCleanSession", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreZoomSetting", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignore-certificate-error", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieCapabilities);

IE 11 to set a registry entry on the target computer so that driver can maintain a connection