How to close and open browser

Hi,

Once I execute selenium code/functionality, I want to close browser.
Therefore, I used "driver.close();" and its closed the browser window. (I am using chrome webdriver.)

However, I want to reopen my browser for next functional code execution. This code executes:
driver.get("website link");
But I am getting exception, "VisitURL failed because of: no such session".

Looks like "driver.close" is closing the driver too and I need to reinitialize webdriver something like "WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();".
Now, I do not want to call this webdriver initialization. My motive is just to close browser and reopen it.
Please suggest.

Thanks,
Ashvini

I believe that parent window is attached to the driver session.  Why do you want to close it and reopen it? What does that save you? If you are using a testing framework, you would typically create a new webdriver instance for each test. There are specific tags you can use depending on your language, such as @SetUp for C#, which will run a method at the beginning of each test.  Closing the browser and maintaining the same session seems to over complicate the test while gaining no benefit

closing the driver or closing the browser boith are same.... close it wen all your testcases completed.. else invoke new browser before each test case..

AgoBalan is right, at the end it should close browser because of your Teardown.

I personally add quits & close in some parts of some testcases in the event that the testcase really cannot continue if a specific area cannot be executed properly. Such as like a submit button.

Taken off Seleniums Docs there are two methods you can call to close the browser:

close()
Close the current window, quitting the browser if it's the last window currently open.

quit()
Quits this driver, closing every associated window.