Use Selenium chrome and gecko driver as the same time

Question

Is there a way to fire off the use of the chrome and gecko webdriver at the same time without duplicating code?

Right now I'm swapping between the two.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import 

def setUp(self):
    # self.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    self.browser = webdriver.Chrome()

Answer 1

Yes, you can do it. However there must be some place where you specify the browser to be opened.

1. Browser name to be opened can be passed as an argument to setup method

   from selenium import webdriver
   
   def setUp(self, browserName):
       if browserName == "Firefox":
           self.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
       elif browserName == "Chrome" :
           self.browser = webdriver.Chrome()
   

2. Browser name to be opened can be read from some configuration/properties file.

   from selenium import webdriver
   
   def setUp(self):
       browserName = #Code to read value from configuration file
       if browserName == "Firefox":
           self.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
       elif browserName == "Chrome" :
           self.browser = webdriver.Chrome()
   

Answer 2

You haven't specified the environment, so I'll go with this. This is how it could be done in Katalon Studio:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", DriverFactory.getChromeDriverPath())
WebDriver driver1 = new ChromeDriver()
WebDriver driver2 = new FirefoxDriver()

DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(driver1)
// test with Chrome

DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(driver2)
// test with Firefox