Is it possible to upgrade Selenium to Selenium 4?

[kazurayam]

@chris.oneal

Katalon just doesn’t seem to hear, or care.

They do care. They once tried to employ Selenium4 early this year but encountered some technical problems. See the following discussion

Studio 8.2.1.alpha is now available with Selenium 4!

Selenium 4 supported Chrome DevTools Protocol. Chrome DevTools Protocol is also called CDP for short. See this article. I wanted to use CDP Network commands. For example, I wanted to fetch HTTP Request’s Headers (including Cookies) sent from Chrome to Web server. So I tried to write a Test Case that calls CDP through Selenium. In Katalon Studio v8.2.1-alpha, I wrote the following Test Case. This script is supposed to retrieve console logs in the DevTools. I copied this from this article impor…

Selenium 3 to 4 transittion is not a simple upgrade. It involves big changes: new dependenciy to the selenium-devtools-vXX jar, and backward-incompatibility (DesiredCapability class is deprecated). I guess, these changes would require much works for Katalon dev team.

But I do not know their current plan for Selenium4 with CDP.

[Joke] I would not be surprised to hear that Katalon to release a new product line: Playwright + TestOps for Enterprise, which is payable. KS to stay with Selenium3 forever. That would not matter much because most of Katalon Studio users wont require Selenium4 features.