Page Refresh in Selenium WebDriver

There are many ways that we can refresh a web page in Selenium Webdriver tests. Here are listed some of them: 
1) Using refresh() method of WebDriver

driver.navigate().refresh();

This is most commonly used method. 
2) Using F5 key

driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys(Keys.F5);

This is also commonly used method. We must use it in any text field of the web page as it uses Send keys method. 
3) Using Actions class of WebDriver

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.F5).perform();

4) Using jQuery

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("history.go(0)");

5) Using navigate( ).to( ) method of WebDriver

driver.navigate().to(driver.getCurrentUrl());

6) Using ASCII code

driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("\uE035");

Navigate Back, Forward and to an Url in Selenium Webdriver

Below scenarios explains how we can navigate across the browser for various web pages.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://aksahu.blogspot.in/");

Navigate to an Url:

driver.navigate().to("http://knowledgebase-wiki.appspot.com/");

This navigates the page to "http://knowledgebase-wiki.appspot.com/"

Navigate Back:

driver.navigate().back();

This navigates back to the previous page "http://aksahu.blogspot.in/"

Navigate Forward:

driver.navigate().forward();

This navigates the page forward to "http://knowledgebase-wiki.appspot.com/"