Selenium Event Listener

Dheeraj Gambhir
1 min readNov 21, 2019

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Selenium provides an API for various events that occur when our scripts are executed like click, switch to a window, navigation, onException, etc. and these can be registered using WebDriverEventListener interface or EventFiringWebDriver class.

These events play a pivotal role in analyzing results and in debugging issues (if any). EventFiringWebDriver class takes care of all events that are occurred while the execution of your script. EventFiringWebDriver class can be bind to more than one listener but all event listeners should be registered with the EventFiringWebDriver class so that it can be notified.

Check this link to know details about all the methods in WebDriverEventListener Interface: https://selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/events/WebDriverEventListener.html

Note* WebDriver listener (WebDriverEventListener) is doing a similar job like TestNG listeners i.e. of logging/reporting things but both work on different events. WebDriverEventListener works on different automation events like click, navigation, etc. whereas TestNG works on different test’s related events like onStart(), beforeStart(), etc.

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