Introduction

Selenium is a set of API’s that automates browsers. Primarily, it is used for automating web applications for Functional Testing purposes. Learning Selenium is easy.

In this post we will set up java, eclipse, and selenium to run a sample program in Selenium.

Prerequisites: Windows or Linux Machine

• Java JDK installation.
• Eclipse Download.
• Run a sample selenium program.

 

Java JDK Installation:

You can download JDK from here :

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

 

Eclipse package installation:

Download Eclipse as a package and extract to your favorite destination folder.

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

 

Recommendation: If you have 64-bit operating system, make sure you install JDK and eclipse both 64-bit versions.

Now that you have Eclipse installed try to run a sample Hello World Java program using Eclipse.

For more details, please go through the article here: Working with Eclipse Basics

Setup and Configuration of Selenium in Eclipse is very easy using Maven. New to Maven?

Please have a look at: What is Maven ?

Create a Maven project.

How to create a new maven project.

File -> New -> Maven Project.

 

Note: You don’t see Maven project option, either you don’t have maven plugin installed on eclipse or go to Other and choose  Maven project in New Project menu.

 

 

Create a simple project that choose skip archetype selection. Enter the project name and hit Finish.

Now we will add Selenium dependency to Our project.Add the below dependencies to pom.xml.

Eclipse would automatically download the dependencies and builds the workspace automatically.

Tip: Hit Ctrl+S keyboard combination to save.

 

<dependencies>
  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  		<artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>
  		<version>2.53.1</version>
  	</dependency>
  
  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  		<artifactId>selenium-api</artifactId>
  		<version>2.53.1</version>
  	</dependency>

  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  		<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
  		<version>2.53.1</version>
  	</dependency>

        <dependency>
  		<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  		<artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
  		<version>2.53.1</version>
  	</dependency>

  <dependency>
  		<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  		<artifactId>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactId>
  		<version>2.53.1</version>
  	</dependency>
  	
  </dependencies>

 

Note : Remove <dependencies> tags if you already have some dependencies in your project.

<dependencies> ..</dependencies>

You can check the added dependencies and any conflicts, also as shown below.

Expand the project and right-click pom.xml and open it with Maven POM editor as shown in the picture.

 

Switch to dependencies tab and click on Add.. button to add a dependency .

Type selenium in the textbox and hit enter, choose the dependencies you want, and add them to the project. To practice different programs using Selenium choose all the dependencies.

 

After adding the dependencies save them.

For example, IE Driver maven dependency :

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  <artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>
  <version>2.53.1</version>
</dependency>

 

Create a sample Selenium first program

Create a new class and choose the main method while creating as shown in below figure.

 

Now type the following program code :

package demo;
 
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
 
public class FirstProgram {
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    
  FirefoxDriver fox = new FirefoxDriver(); 
  fox.get("http://www.google.com"); 
    fox.close();
 
  }
 
}

 

Run the program to see Firefox open, Browse Google search engine page and close.

Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other browser automation tools, APIs, and frameworks.

You can use Selenium If you want to

• create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests.
• scale and distribute scripts across many test environments

Webdriver; a collection of language-specific bindings to drive a browser. Selenium WebDriver is the successor of Selenium Remote Control which has been officially deprecated now. The Selenium Server (used by both WebDriver and Remote Control) now also includes built-in grid capabilities.

More Information at: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/

 

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