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Selenium WebDriver

Simple Test Case: Open and Close Browser

Basic Example

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://example.com");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
driver.close();  // closes current window
driver.quit();   // closes all windows and ends the session

close() vs quit()

close() shuts only the current browser window/tab, while quit() closes all windows opened by the WebDriver session and properly ends the driver process.

Why Start Here

Opening and closing a browser correctly is the foundation every other WebDriver script builds on — getting this wrong can leave orphaned browser processes running after a test finishes.

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