Update Selenium to v.4.40.0

[mialeska]

+semver: breaking

• Fix javadocs issues
• Update other plugins and dependencies
• Update license year
• Fix some test assertions
• Update settings and pipeline to use appium3

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Walkthrough

This PR updates license year, bumps Maven plugins/dependencies, adjusts CI/Appium settings (including namespaced --allow-insecure), refines Javadoc wording, swaps some test Assert argument orders, and changes test/local settings to run Appium locally.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
License & Build Metadata LICENSE, pom.xml	Copyright year updated to 2026; multiple Maven plugins and dependencies bumped to newer patch/minor versions (compiler, jacoco, assembly, source, javadoc, gpg, central-publishing; aquality-selenium-core, testng, commons-lang3, commons-io)
CI Pipeline Configuration azure-pipelines.yml	Appium version bumped v2→v3, UIA2 driver v4→v6, Appium startup flag changed to namespaced --allow-insecure uiautomator2:chromedriver_autodownload, Maven runtime/toolchain tweak
Source Code Documentation src/main/java/.../IElementFactory.java, src/main/java/.../ScreenType.java	Javadoc wording refinements and added @return doc for platform(); no signature or behavioral changes
Local & Test Service Settings src/main/resources/settings.json, src/test/resources/settings.androidwebsession.json, src/test/resources/settings.json	--allow-insecure value extended to uiautomator2:chromedriver_autodownload; isRemote toggled true→false in test settings; timeoutCondition reduced (15→10)
Test Assertion Order Corrections src/test/java/integration/DeviceSettingsTest.java, src/test/java/samples/android/web/WebTextBoxTest.java	Multiple Assert.assertEquals calls had argument order swapped (expected/actual inverted); no logic or control-flow changes

Sequence Diagram(s)

(Skipped — changes are configuration, dependency bumps, docs, and small test/doc tweaks without new multi-component control-flow.)

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~20 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• Update Selenium to v.4.40.0 #55 — Overlaps with pom/azure/settings/Javadoc/test and license updates in this PR.
• Update Appium version to 10 +semver: breaking #53 — Related changes to Appium configuration and CI driver/version handling.
• Update to Appium 9.5.0 and Selenium 4.33.0 +semver:feature #45 — CI/Appium pipeline updates and dependency bumps with emulator/setup changes.

Suggested labels

documentation

Poem

🐰 Year hops forward, license now twenty‑twenty‑six,
Appium and Maven get nimble new tricks.
Docs get polisher, tests set their view,
Local services tuned, drivers named true.
A rabbit cheers softly — small changes, big mix.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check	⚠️ Warning	The title mentions updating Selenium to v4.40.0, but the changeset does not include Selenium updates; instead, it updates Appium to v3, fixes Javadocs, updates other dependencies, and updates the license year.	Update the title to reflect the actual main changes, such as 'Update Appium to v3 and fix Javadocs' or 'Update dependencies, Appium to v3, and fix Javadocs issues'.

✅ Passed checks (2 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description lists relevant changes that align with the changeset: Javadocs fixes, dependency updates, license year update, test assertion fixes, and Appium 3 updates.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 80.65% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.

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