Add 'Get Notification Window' method to Web Driver spec

[andreastt]

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=29695

Alex:

Need a support of window.Notification() by Web Driver for test automation.

I have created a request to SeleniumHQ team (https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/2259) and reply was: "Closing this issue as we will not be adding any new features that are not defined in the W3C spec."

Could it be added to WebDriver Spec? Thank you.

[shs96c]

Moving to level 2. No existing implementations offer this functionality, and it's not been discussed at the face to face sessions.

[vipyne]

Has there been any more interest in or discussion about adding interaction with browser level notifications to the spec?

The specific use-case in mind concerns the camera and microphone permission notification. Interaction with this notification is needed to fully end-to-end test all code paths of a real-time audio/video web app. The most common scenario might be a user blocking access to the camera or mic and then allowing access later on within a session. This test case isn't currently possible with WebDriver. The ability to interact with a media permissions notification, as well as prompt the notification dialog programmatically, would allow a WebDriver instance to test such a scenario.

[whimboo]

Handling permissions is meanwhile covered by https://w3c.github.io/permissions-automation/. The implementation so far has only be done for Chrome (see wpt test results.

So I assume this allows us to close this issue? @jgraham do you have any other feedback?