Filed under: Java, Maven, Selenium, Test automation, — Tags: WebDriver — Thomas Sundberg — 2012-10-29
Getting started with Selenium WebDriver may be an issue. You must write some code and get the code running. I have created what I think is the smallest possible solution that could work. It consists of two files, a project definition and the actual test.
You will need to have Java and Maven installed. I will not tell you how this should be done, it depends on your environment and operating system.
Lets start with a project definition for Maven that will download the dependencies needed and execute a test. The simplest possible Maven pom that will work is this:
pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>se.somath</groupId>
<artifactId>web-driver-example</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>2.25.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
The two most important things here are the two dependencies. The first one will include JUnit so a test can be written. The second one will include WebDriver so a browser can be started and a web page can be interacted with.
A test that will connect to a web site and execute something may look like this:
src/test/java/AskTest.java
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class AskTest {
@Test
public void shouldAskGoogleForWebDriver() {
WebDriver browser = new FirefoxDriver();
browser.get("http://bing.com/");
WebElement inputField = browser.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q"));
inputField.sendKeys("WebDriver");
WebElement searchButton = browser.findElement(By.id("sb_form_go"));
searchButton.click();
browser.close();
}
}
To execute this test, you need to execute Maven:
mvn test
All dependencies you need will be downloaded. A Firefox should be launched and Bing should be searched for WebDriver.
The files has to live in this structure:
example
|-- pom.xml
`-- src
`-- test
`-- java
`-- AskTest.java
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