How to open a second browser without closing the first in Katalon

            By default, when you are opening a new browser, it will close the previous one and open a new one. In some cases, we need to do our test activities in both the browsers. As of now Katalon is doing like this. So, we need to do some scripting to achieve this. In this blog, we are going to see how to open a second browser without closing the first. Let’s get into this...!

Create two drivers:

    public static WebDriver driver1;

    public static WebDriver driver2;

        We have to create two different drivers and keep those as a static. So, that you can call anywhere you want across the project.

Create a method to open browser:

public ChromeDriver openChromeBrowser() {

       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",DriverFactory.getChromeDriverPath());

       return new ChromeDriver();

}

        This method will open a chrome browser also it returns a chrome driver which is created in the method. If you want to open any other browser, please configure the method based on your requirement.

Open 1^st browser and changing the driver:

    driver1 = openChromeBrowser();

    DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(driver1);

        First line we are calling the method which we created to open browser. Then we are assigning the chrome that is returned by that method. Then we are changing the default driver to driver1.

        Purpose of changing driver is, we can directly use Katalon’s methods without any changes.

 

Open 2^nd browser and changing the driver:

    driver2 = openChromeBrowser()

    DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(driver2)

Here we are doing the same like what we did it for the 1st browser.

When we open this second browser it won’t close the previous browser. So, you can continue your test case activity on both the browsers.

Sample scenario for better understanding:

Step 1: Open 1st browser (driver in the 1st browser)

Step 2: Create user

Step 3: Open 2nd browser (change the driver to driver2)

Step 4: Login with the created user's credentials

Step 5: Switch to the first browser(change the driver to driver1)

Step 6 : Delete the created user

Thanks for reading, Kindly let us know below in the comment section if you have any..!