As a .NET developer, I really didn't have that much trouble getting started with Selenium. I had Nuget to grab everything, and I depended heavily on the tools built into Visual Studio. But none of us are guaranteed to be working in the same environment forever. Things changed. I went looking for new challenges. I found them rather immediately, but now I can tell everyone who reads this about them. Let me help you save some time.
In Eclipse
You need to find the latest Selenium Client and WebDriver Bindings.
Then you need a browser driver. I'll use ChromeDriver for this, but you should be able to use whichever browser you want (or all of them if you want to try cross browser testing, but that's an advanced topic for a totally different time).
1. Create a new Java Project.
2. Add External Libraries
3. You need to put the browser driver you downloaded somewhere your IDE can get to it or properly set the PATH variable for the browser driver of your choice.
4. Now you need a base test class for your tests and a base page class for your page objects.
Then you need a browser driver. I'll use ChromeDriver for this, but you should be able to use whichever browser you want (or all of them if you want to try cross browser testing, but that's an advanced topic for a totally different time).
1. Create a new Java Project.
2. Add External Libraries
- Right-click on the project in Package Explorer
- Select Properties => Java Build Path => Libraries => Add External JARsd
- This is where you browse for the Selenium Client and WebDriver bindings and add the client jar file as well as all the jar files in the lib folder.
3. You need to put the browser driver you downloaded somewhere your IDE can get to it or properly set the PATH variable for the browser driver of your choice.
4. Now you need a base test class for your tests and a base page class for your page objects.
PageBase
TestBase
Once you have these things in place, you can start to create your page objects and tests.
