Selenium-First-Program Notes By ShariqSP

Step 1: Create a project in Eclipse

Open Eclipse and create a new Java project.

Step 2: Create folders for libraries and drivers

Create a folder named jarFiles and another folder named drivers in your project directory.

Step 3: Download Selenium 3 jar and configure

Download Selenium 3 jar file and copy it to the jarFiles folder. Then, configure the jar in the build path of your project.

Step 4: Download browser drivers

Download Chrome, Firefox, and Edge drivers. Extract the zip files and copy the executable files (e.g., chromedriver.exe, geckodriver.exe, msedgedriver.exe) into the drivers folder.

Launching empty browsers

1. Launch Chrome Browser

Create a class named launchChromeBrowser and use the following code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./drivers/chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

2. Launch Firefox Browser

Create a class named launchFirefoxBrowser and use the following code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","./drivers/geckodriver.exe");
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

3. Launch Edge Browser

Create a class named launchEdgeBrowser and use the following code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver","./drivers/msedgedriver.exe");
EdgeDriver driver = new EdgeDriver();

Setting up Selenium Project