First Selenium Program Setup

Let us write our own first selenium program by creating new Java Project in Eclipse editor tool...

First step is to create a new Java Project in Eclipse to write our own first selenium webdriver program, for this we need below prerequisites software

Pre-Condition:

• Eclipse Installation download here
• JDK Installation

After installing above softwares,user needs to follow the below process:

First create “New Folder” with name as like “automation_Workspace” folder in user machine, like

• Example for Windows: Create automation_Workspace under this directory D:/automation_Workspace

• Example for Mac: Create automation_Workspace under this directory /Users/<<username>>/Documents/automation_Workspace

Step 1:

Click on Eclipse icon and click on browse, navigate upto automation_Workspace folder

Step 2:

Go to File >>New >> Project

Select Java Project 

Click next button

Enter project name as “SeleniumTraining”

Click finish button

User can see the “SeleniumTraining” folder at left side of eclipse screen

Step 3:

Right click on “SeleniumTraining” folder

Click New>>Folder

Give folder name as “lib”

Step 4:

Download latest selenium-standalone-server.jar from here

By default, the selenium-standalone-server.jarJar will downloaded in downloads folder.

Copy the downloaded selenium-standalone-server.jar and place it in “lib” folder which user created in above Step 4

Step 5:

Create a New class file under “SeleniumTraining>>src” folder

Right click on src folder, go to New>>Class

Give name as FirstSeleniumProgram

Click Finish button

Step 6:

Now copy the below code and paste inside the 

FirstSeleniumProgram.java

public class FirstSeleniumProgram {

static WebDriver driver = null;

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Invoke the Firefox Browser using selenium webdriver
driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// Maximize the firefox window using selenium webdriver
driver.manage().window().maximize();

// Access the gmail url in firefox browser using selenium webdriver
driver.get("http://gmail.com");

}

}

Step 7:

Once user paste the above code in FirstSeleniumProgram.java file, Eclipse automatically will show the error indications with Red color.

These errors are because, user didn't add the selenium-standalone-server.jar to SeleniumTraining java project

Step 8:

To import the downloaded selenium-standalone-server.jar into the java project.

Right click on src folder, Select on Build Path >> Configure Build Path.

A new window open with name “Java Build Path”, click on Libraries button.

Click on “Add External JARs” button, navigate to the folders “SeleniumTraining>>lib” select selenium-standalone-server.jar.

Click Ok button.

Import the below packages into FirstSeleniumProgram.java

public class FirstSeleniumProgram {
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

Now all the Errors will gone and everything looks good

Complete code looks like below:

public class FirstSeleniumProgram {
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class FirstSeleniumProgram {

static WebDriver driver = null;

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Invoke the Firefox Browser using selenium webdriver
driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// Maximize the firefox window using selenium webdriver
driver.manage().window().maximize();

// Access the gmail url in firefox browser using selenium webdriver
driver.get("http://gmail.com");

}

}

Step 9:

Right click on FirstSeleniumProgram.java file and select Run As>>Java Application

Hope you are able to run your own selenium program using java :)