Introduction of Selenium Webdriver Using Java

What is Selenium? Selenium is used for automating web applications for testing purposes. It is a suite of tools to automate browsers across many platforms. This is a stand alone tool. Selenium has the following tools : Selenium IDE Selenium RC Selenium Grid Selenium WebDriver

Selenium Webdriver Open Source Software Supports Different Operating Environments Windows, Linux, Mac Supports Different languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Javascript Supports cross browser testing like Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari

Tools needed to Run Selenium Java 8 Intellij Firebug Firepath Maven Junit

Java 8 Make sure to set the Environment variables for JAVA_HOME Also set the path variable to for Java bin location

Firebug and Firepath Firebug and Firepath are the tools that integrate with firefox. These both helps to inspect the web elements and generate the Xpath.

Maven Install Maven software from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi Unzip the software and specific the location in path variable

Junit Junit is test framework for Java programming language. Annotations in Junit: After Before AfterClass BeforeClass @Test Ignore

JavaDoc Classes needed to write a basic selenium code WebDriver WebElement By

By Class By.ByClassName, By.ByCssSelector, By.ById, By.ByLinkText, By.ByName, By.ByPartialLinkText, By.ByTagName, By.ByXPath,

Xpath Xpath is a syntax or language to find the web elements in a web page. Absolute Xpath Relative Xpath

Xpath //tagname[@attribute-name = ‘value’] Examples: //input[@name=‘login’] //input[@name=‘login][class=‘input’] //input[@name=‘login or class=‘input’] //input[@name=‘login and class=‘input’] //input[text()=‘hello’]