First Selenium WebDriver Test case - Selenium WebDriver Testing Free Training

Welcome to the Selenium WebDriver Testing Free Training series. In this tutorial, we are going to talk about how to write the first Selenium WebDriver code with Java programming.

Prerequisites

What is Selenium Webdriver?

Selenium WebDriver is an open-source tool that is used to test web applications. The Selenium WebDriver tool is used for automating web application testing to verify & validate the expected outcome. It primarily supports browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. It also allows you to execute cross-browser testing.

Selenium WebDriver provides different programming libraries to write test scripts that are the following:

1. Java
2. C#
3. Ruby
4. Python
5. JavaScript

To get more detail, please refer to the following URL:

https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/

For Instructor-led training

Master of Functional Automation Testing

For Self-Driven training

Automation with Selenium WebDriver (Java)

Let’s come to the next question,

why is it so famous in the testing industry?

1. It is an open-source tool.
2. It provides multilingual programming support.
3. Furthermore, it supports multiple OS like Linux, UNIX, Mac, and Windows.
4. It supports all the major browsers so that you could test on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE, Edge, Yandex, and many more. When you execute cross-browser testing of a website, it provides you with an automated solution.
5. It can be integrated with various frameworks, like Maven or ANT, for building, and compiling the source code. For application testing and reporting, it can be integrated with testing frameworks like TestNG, and JUnit. For Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery, It can integrate with Jenkins for automated build and deployment.
6. User-friendliness of Selenium WebDriver is one of the benefits of Selenium WebDriver for automation testing.
7. The test scripts written using Selenium WebDriver support cross-browser testing. So, a tester can run multiple testing scenarios since it covers every functionality testing aspect. The add-ons that can be customized extend the scope of testing an application, serving great benefits of automation testing with Selenium WebDriver.
8. WebDriver provides the benefit of speeding up the test cycles by leveraging the development code. Testers can use the language used by developers.

So far, we have discussed the Selenium WebDriver and its popularity. Let’s see how to write our first Selenium WebDriver code:

Import Note: please make sure, you have imported the Selenium Java library to the project.

In this simple test case, we are just going to open the Google page.

First Selenium Webdriver script

package seleniumWebDriverCodes;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class OpeningWebsiteChrome {
    public static void main(String[] args) {     
// please set the path where your webdriver file lies in your system
// for Mac: should be like, "\User\name_of_user\Downloads\chromedriver"
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files\\chromedriver.exe" );
        ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
    }
}