Quality Engineering・2 min read・Last update on October 22, 2021

# Everything you need to know about Selenium 4

 

 

 

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   Table of contents  - [New Features](#new-features)
- [Conclusion](#conclusion)
 
  

 

Ever since Selenium 4 was announced in August 2018, the QA testing world was excited and thrilled for the latest enhancement of a QA tester’s best tool. On October 13, 2021, the stable Selenium 4 was officially released after the release of its Alpha and Beta versions. The exciting new features of Selenium 4 are way beyond what anyone could have anticipated and in this blog, this is exactly what we’re going to cover.

### New Features

We have explored these new features in our series blogs with code snippets

#### Relative Locators 

Relative locators is the new feature introduced in Selenium 4 to locate WebElements relative to other elements. To deep dive, visit our blog on [relative locators](/insights/selenium-4-relative-locators)

#### Screenshots 

Selenium 4 provides the capability to capture screenshots at different UI levels - element, Section, Full Page. In the [screenshots](/insights/how-to-take-screenshots-in-selenium-4) blog, we have covered why we need this feature and how we can achieve it in Selenium 4, with example codes

#### Window Handling 

With Selenium 4, we have a new API to handle the opening of new windows/tabs and switching between windows during test execution. Visit [our blog](/insights/how-to-handle-multiple-windows-with-selenium-4) to understand how working with Windows has changed from Selenium 3 to Selenium

#### Chrome DevTools Protocol 

Native support for Chrome DevTools Protocol is one of the major Selenium 4 features. You can refer to this [blog](/insights/selenium-4-api-for-chrome-devtools) to learn more about the implementation of CDP in detail

#### Deprecated, Modified and New Methods 

With the introduction of new features, there has been deprecation and modification of methods on Selenium 4. Explore them in this [article](/insights/selenium-4-deprecated-modified-and-new-methods).

**Note:** Find the sample code snippets for these features in the GitHub repository [here](https://github.com/sonamchaturvedi28/selenium4_codes).

### Conclusion

Have you tried Selenium 4? If yes, do let us know what features you liked the most, along with the overall experience of working with Selenium 4!

**Happy Testing !!!**

 



Written by

Sonam Chaturvedi

QA Technical Lead

 

 

 

 

 

 

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