Configure Selenium Webdriver

How to download and configure/install Selenium Webdriver?

Selenium can be configured in the following ways:

First one needs to download the latest jar files from the selenium official website.

Second unzip the downloaded jar files and include them in the Selenium project.

Here are the steps given below:

One can download the selenium webdriver from the given link below:

http://seleniumhq.org/download/

Click on the download link as per the desired language you want to configure Selenium Webdriver. The example is shown for the Selenium Webdriver configured with Java language.

Once the download link is clicked the user is asked to save the zip files. Then save the zip files into the hard drive of your local system. When the zip files are downloaded properly just unzip the files to get files inside a folder.

We will configure using 'Eclipse IDE'. First we need to download the Eclipse from the 'Eclipse' website.

Go to the website: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and download the following as given in the screenshot:

Please download the version "Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, 212 MB", and choose the 32 bit or 64 bit as per your system.

After the download is successful unzip the zip folder for 'Eclipse' and place the folder anywhere in your hard disk drive. In this example I have place it in 'E' drive. Now go to the 'Eclipse' folder as per the given the screenshot below:

Click on the 'eclipse.exe' and there will be a security dialog box. Just click on the 'Run' button and one can see the 'Eclipse' will launch with the following window:

Give the workspace name as per your desired requirement or else you can choose for different workspace location by clicking on the 'Browse' button. After you are done with setting your workspace path click on the 'Ok' button and it displays a window like this given below:

If you want to read about 'Eclipse' then click on the relevant links or else simply just click on the cross button of the 'Welcome' tab. Then the user is displayed with this window:

Now in the 'Project Explorer' right click inside it and click on the 'New -> Project' as given in the screenshot below:

Now in the 'New Project' dialog box click on the 'Java Project' and click n the 'Next' button.

In the next window give the project name and click on the 'Finish' button.

Now the user is displayed a screen like this given below:

Now 'Eclipse' has been configured in the system.
Now we will configure Webdriver into it using the 'Eclipse IDE'.

In the left hand side right click on the project name and click on the 'Properties' option as given in the screenshot below:

Now in the properties dialog box click on the 'Java Build Path' and click no the 'Libraries' tab as given in the screenshot below:

In the above dialog box click on the 'Add External JARs...' button and browse for the jar files which is downloaded for the Selenium Webdriver as given in the screenshot below:

choose the jar files under the 'selenium-2.21.0' folder and 'lib' folder and include all the jars and click on the open button the user is displayed the screenshot like this given below:

In the above click on the 'Ok' button and now one can see all the jars included in it. Now 'Selenium Webdriver' is configured in your system with 'Eclipse IDE'. One can write the code in java and execute in the Selenium Webdriver and it will automate the browser actions as per the java code.