Selenium WebDriver Configuration Maven/Eclipse/Java

1. Create a folder [POMFOLDER] to contain your Selenium project files, within this folder create a file [pom.xml] file & Paste following code in it.

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

4.0.0

MySel20Proj

MySel20Proj

1.0

org.seleniumhq.selenium

selenium-java

2.21.0

com.opera

operadriver

com.opera

operadriver

0.13

                                 
                

                 

2. Type “Download Eclipse” on google.co.in or go to URL - http://www.eclipse.org/ downloads/ & download Eclipse Classic 3.7.1. Unzip eclipse.zip file. Create a shortcut of “eclipse.exe”, right click on “Shortcut to eclipse.exe” icon & click on properties. In Target field append value [ -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_02\bin\javaw" -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx768m -XX:PermSize=256M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M ].
3. Download [jdk1.7.0_02] & install it.
4. Download [apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.zip] & unzip it. Open Readme.txt and follow the steps to install maven.
5. Go to Environment Variables [My Computer -> Properties -> Advance -> Environment Variables -> System Variable, update/create following variables -

                JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25 ‘path of JDK

                PATH=C:\SeleniumProject\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin;%PATH% ‘path of                               Maven Folder

                CLASSPATH= %JAVA_HOME%\lib ‘Path of JDK Library folder

                M2_HOME = C:\SeleniumProject\apache-maven-3.0.4 ‘Path of Maven

6. Open Command prompt (Start -> Run -> CMD), type mvn clean install. It takes 5-10 minutes to install, check for [build successful] message at the end of deployment.

     7.   Go the folder where you had created pom.xml file (Refer Step 1) & type mvn ec             lipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true  -DdownloadJavadocs=true.  It 

           takes 5-10 minutes to install, check for [build successful] message at the end of 

           deployment. 

8. Open Eclipse by clicking on [Shortcut to eclipse.exe], Go to [File -> Import -> General -> Existing Projects into Workspace], click on [Next] button, Click on [Browse] button & select folder [POMFOLDER] (refer step 1).
9. Under [Eclipse -> Project Explorer] tab Maven project [MySel20Proj] is displayed.
10. Go to [Help -> Install New Software] & Enter URL - http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases & click on [Next -> Finish] button, Eclipse prompts for restart, restart it.
11. Create a [Source Folder] (Right click on MySel20Proj, go to New & click on Source Folder)
12. Create a Class File (Right click on Source Folder, go to New & click on Class). New Java Class wizard get opened, enter class name, select checkbox for public static void main (String[] args) & click on Finish button.
13. You are ready to write first selenium program, paste following code within public static void main function –

                                       WebDriverdriver = new FirefoxDriver();

                                       driver.get("http://www.google.com");

14. Click on Crtl+F11, Firefox browser gets opened & URL www.google.com is displayed.