How to Configure Selenium WebDriver

Hola Testers,

Today I’m going to to tell how to configure Selenium WebDriver. Yes, this is the first lesson for Selenium WebDriver. I hope this will be useful for new users. In here, I’m going to use Java as my programming language. I’m going to divide this tutorial for below partitions.

• Create a project and configure .jar files
• Configure TestNG
• Configure Firefox browser
• Configure Chrome browser
• Configure Internet Explore browser

Create a project and configure .jar files

To create a project we need programming IDE. Here I’m using eclipse.

• Open Eclipse
• Create a new Java Project

After create a java project we need to download selenium webdriver jars.

• Go to seleniumhq download page
• Download and unzip the WebDriver bindings

• Create a folder called “libs” in java project (right click on the project > New > Folder)

• Paste all the .jar files from extracted folder of the downloaded zip file

Now we have to add those .jar files to build path.

Select all .jar files in “libs” folder > right click > Build Path > Add to Build Path

• After that you can see all the .jar files in newly created “Referenced Libraries” library folder

Configure TestNG

Click on Help menu > Install New Software..

• Click on Add button, “Add Repository” box will appear.
• Enter below values as inputs and click “OK”
  • Name: TestNG
  • Location: http://beust.com/eclipse

• Accept agreement details and install TestNG. (If it gives warning, click OK)
• After successful installation system ask to restart eclipse, allow it.

 

Configure Firebox browser

• Download geckoDriver from seleniumhq download page Third Party Drivers, Bindings and Plugins section and unzip it

• Create a folder called “driver” in project and add unzipped file. Don’t copy through eclipse.

• Create a class
• Import Firefox browser driver

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver

• Initialize FirefoxDriver object

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "path of geckodrivergeckodriver"); 
FirefoxDriver fd=new FirefoxDriver();

Sample code

@Test

  public void firefoxTest() {

 System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/Users/deranthika/Documents/eclipse/workspace/TestSelenium/drivers/geckodriver");

FirefoxDriver fd=new FirefoxDriver();

fd.get("http://google.lk");

  }

If you are using windows OS, you need to put location as below

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","path of geckodriver.exe");

 

Configure Chrome browser

• Instead of gecko, you need to download chromeDriver from seleniumhq download page
• Download the latest stable version for your OS and copy it to drivers folder
• Import chromeDriver

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

• Create new test method
• Initailize chromeDriver object

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/deranthika/Documents/eclipse/workspace/TestSelenium/drivers/chromedriver");

ChromeDriver cd=new ChromeDriver();

sample code

@Test

  public void chromeTest() {

 System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/deranthika/Documents/eclipse/workspace/TestSelenium/drivers/chromedriver");

ChromeDriver cd=new ChromeDriver();

cd.get("http://google.lk");

  }

Configure Internet Explorer browser

• you need to download InternetExplorerDriver from seleniumhq download page
• Download the latest stable version and copy it to drivers folder
• Import InternetExplorerDriver

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

• Create new test method
• Initailize InternetExplorerDriver object

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\IEDriverServer.exe");

InternetExplorerDriver id= new InternetExplorerDriver();

sample code

@Test

  public void chromeTest() {

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\IEDriverServer.exe");

InternetExplorerDriver id= new InternetExplorerDriver();

id.get("http://google.lk");

  }

I’ll add more browsers later 😉