In order to make your tests OS agnostic, sometimes, you need to create some additional logic to handle OS specifics. For example, if you are running Selenium tests, on a browser, you want the test to run on all OSs, not just one, and start the browser instance corresponding to the OS the tests run on.

For that, you need to first identify what OS the tests run on. That can be done either by creating your own OS detection code, using the os.name system property, or by importing an existing class that does the work for you, named SystemUtils.   Continue reading Identify the OS tests are running on with os.Name or SystemUtils →