Selenium Web Driver Configuration With Eclipse

In previous post we configure Selenium Web Driver with NetBeans,here we try to configure Selenium Web driver with eclipse.

Step 1 - Download and install Java in your system .............

Download and Install JDK(Java Development Kit) from here .

JDK comes with JRE(Java Runtime Environment) so don't need to download it separately.Try to use new version of JDK.

Step 2 - Download and install Eclipse .............



Eclipse basically is an IDE(Integrated Development Environment). We use this to configure Selenium Web Driver to write code for an web automation. We download it from here as per our system configuration (Windows 32 or 64 bit). There are so many flavour of eclipse we prefer Eclipse standard or Eclipse IDE for JAVA Developers.

In Eclipse download page there are many types of package like Indigo,Juno Kepler etc this packages are nothing but a friendly name of the released version.

We always  try to use newer version of Eclipse.

Extract the zip file where you want after download was completed , you will find all application files will be contained with in eclipse folder.

Step 3 - Download Selenium Java Client  ............

Download Selenium Client Driver from here .You will find client drivers for other languages there, but only choose the Java client (language-specific client driver's version is changing time to time so it may be different version when you will visit download page. )

After download completed extract the files from Selenium-Java-2.37.0.zip,it look like this

Open the the libs folder we can see more jar files are there like this........

Step 4 – Configure Eclipse IDE with WebDriver
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/installing-selenium-webdriver.html#U4aDyaTF0sS8XarQ.99

Step 4 - Configure Eclipse with selenium 2 (Web Driver) ..............

• Select Workspace

We just need to double click on eclipse.exe which is with in the extracted eclipse folder IDE ,then start to work.We don't need to install this in our machine.It will ask to select workspace where our work will be stored as shown in below image.

 You can change it later on from 'Switch Workspace' under 'file' menu of eclipse.  

• Create new project

Create new java project from File > New > Project > Java Project

 and give your project name like 'SeleniumWebdriverTest' as shown in bellow given figures.

Or you directly choose Java project from File > New > Java Project

• Create new package

Right click on project name and select New > Package.

Give package name like  'mypackage' and click on finish button. It will add new package with name 'mypackage' under project name.

• Create New Class

Right click on package 'mypackage' and select New > Class and set class name = 'MyClass'

and click on Finish button. It will add new class 'MyClass' under package 'mypackage'.Now eclips looks like that......

• Add external jar file to java build path 

Now you need to add Selenium WebDriver jar files in to java build path. 

1. Right click on project 'SeleniumWebDriverTest' > Select Properties
2. Select Java build path > Navigate to Libraries tab 
3. Click on add external JARs button > select all jar files(selenium-2.37.0 + selenium-java-2.37.0-srcs.jar +All jar in libs folder)

    4.Click OK.

    5.Now project looks like .......

Step 5 - Write A Simple Code ...............

1.Now we are ready to write code in Eclipse using Selenium WebDriver.Here we write some code like

package mypackage;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class MyClass {
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
      
        //Here we initialize the firefox webdriver
        WebDriver firefoxDriver=new FirefoxDriver();
      
        //Open the url which we want in firefox
        firefoxDriver.get("Http://www.google.com");

    }
}
2.Run the test script by right clicking test script  > Choose Run As > Choose Java Application. Script can also be run by pressing Run icon available in menu bar......

after running the testscript firefox will be opened and show the google page like this....

If we observed the firefox window we can see that WebDriver word is written into the below of this page because it is opened by the Selenium WebDriver.