Create And Run First Webdriver Script With Eclipse

Run First Webdriver Script

You need to install webdriver with eclipse to run your script in webdriver. Before running your first selenium webdriver test, you also need to download geckodriver to run your test in mozilla firefox browser. steps to download geckodriver are as below.

Download geckodriver

• Go to geckodriver download page.
• On geckodriver download page, you will find latest version release of geckodriver.
• Download geckodriver win64 version if you are working with windows 64 bit system.as shown in below image.

• You will get zip file of geckodriver.
• Extract it. You will geckodriver.exe from extracted folder.
• Copy and paste it at D:\Selenium Files (Selenium Files folder in D: drive).

After downloading geckodriver exe and installation of webdriver software testing tool, You need to write a java code in eclipse for your test case of software web application. Let me give you one simple example of creating simple webdriver script for software web application. First of all you need to create the package called "Testing_Pack" under your project and then create new class file 'mytestclass.java' under that package. Now copy-paste bellow given code In your 'mytestclass.java' file.

package Testing_Pack;

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

public class mytestclass {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  //set geckodriver path.
  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\Selenium Files\\geckodriver.exe");
  //initialize firefox driver object to open firefox browser.
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    //open URL in browser.
    driver.get("http://only-testing-blog.blogspot.com");
    String i = driver.getCurrentUrl();
    System.out.println(i);
    driver.close();
   }
}

Now you are ready to run your script from Run menu as shown bellow.

Script Explanation

Above script will 

• open Firefox browser. 
• Then driver.get syntax will open 'http://only-testing-blog.blogspot.com/' software application in firefox browser.
• Then driver.getCurrentUrl() will get the current page URL and it will be stored in variable 'i'. You can do same thing using "storeLocation" command in selenium IDE
• And at last, it will print value of variable in console as shown bellow.

So this is the simple webdriver script example. You can create it for your own software web application too by replacing URL in above script. We will learn more scripts in detail in my upcoming posts.

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