Downloading and Configuring Selenium WebDriver in Eclipse
Steps:
- To Download Selenium WebDriver jar file Go to https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/
- Now Click on 3.141.59 under the label shown in Image
- Now Open Eclipse and Create one Java project
- Right Click on Left-hand side in Eclipse under Package Explorer like in Image
- Select NEW|JAVA PROJECT as marked in Image
- Enter the name of Project Here I have mentioned New Project and Click on Finish button
- Go to Project Explorer Label and See new project has been created as in Image
- Now Select your project and Select NEW|Folder as in Image
- Another Window Open Enter the name of Folder and Click on Finish as in Image
- Now go to Location where Java Client has been downloaded and Copy the Selenium Server
- Copy Selenium Server Standalone jar in Lib folder created under the new project
- Now add this standalone jar file into the path by doing Right Click on selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar – Go to Build path|Add to Build Path as in the image
- Now you would see a new Label named as Reference Library as in Image
- By adding selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar, we have configured Webdriver in Eclipse
Configuring TestNG in Eclipse
- In Eclipse go to Help|Install New Software
- Enter http://beust.com/eclipse in the field as displayed in the image below and click on Add Button on the right side of this text field, A pop up will appear, Enter the name TestNG and click on ok button and wait for few second. After this wait, you See TestNg and Select checkbox of TestNg and then click on Next and Follow the Instruction and finally click on Finish and Refresh Eclipse.
- Note: In between installation one pop alert will appear before you that will ask your permission to install TestNG since it is not trusted, In this click on the Ok button..wait for the installation of TestNg
- The question arises how we know that TestNg has been configured in Eclipse
Steps
- Go to Window | Show View | Other as in Image
- Now Select Java|TestNG|GO
- Finally to see whether Eclipse is configured or not do a final touch Right Click on you Peoject|Run As|TestNg Test as in Image
Finally, we are done with the configuration of Selenium WebDriver and TestNG In Eclipse.
Thank you for posting this step-by-step. I surely needed it. I’m new to Selenium and I was already confused with server vs. RC and through in IntelliJ and Maven and my head spun. I’m back to using a familiar IDE.
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Hi Dwarika,
Thank you very much for such a nice article. It has helped many of us for sure. Please can you now show us how to start structuring Project. I mean
evn file and how to start writing test cases and how to keep them versatile.
It would be great help.
Thanks,
Sagar
Thank you very much for sharing this information
Most welcome
Grate job Dwarika
Thank you!!
Hi iam getting the below error message when i followed the steps
Network connection problems encountered during search.
Unable to access “http://beust.com/eclipse”.
Error parsing site stream. [Premature end of file.]
Premature end of file.
Error parsing site stream. [Premature end of file.]
Premature end of file.
Please do the needful. Thanks in advance
By adding maven plugin to eclipse nd by mentioning it in pom.xml.It automatically resolves all dependencies
I am unable to download TestNG can some help me how to download it…i try with the install new software but it does work for me..
which is better testng or junit can u give me some suggestion about both
TestNg taking too much time to install…its not getting progress after 37%
Hello Dwarika,
Thanks for the tutorial.
I am here to ask that how can I put the TestNG plugin manually inside the Eclipse and how can I create an XML file for the TestNG manually as while installing the process, it stuck after 43% and giving me a lot of error messages on console. Need your words for the same.
Thanks & Cheers,
Vaibhav S
Hello once again,
Dwarika, I am facing this issue while downloading the plugin.
‘File Transport Reader’ has encountered a problem.
Transfer Exception.
In an error when I clicked on Details button then I got these things inside it
Transfer Exception
Read Time out
Go to Help ==> About Eclipse ==> Click on Installed Plugin ==> Search Testng there and uninstall it and try again. It will be installed properly.
Hi
I am dastagiri
can you tel me which jar file i want add it.
when i wrote this code Workbook w = Workbook.getWorkbook(fi);
it is chowing getWorkbook(fi) in that part fileinputstream is not identifying
showing this message.
can u help me.
Yes please use jxl
Jar for the same and for
The same read my another article written on data driven.probably you will
Get better idea to deal with this problem