Creating your first selenium script

Let's create first test script in Selenium webdriver.

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import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; public class test{ public static void main(String[] args){ System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","./lib/geckodriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("http://google.com"); String Title = driver.getTitle(); // compare the actual title of the page with the expected one if (Title.contentEquals("Google")) { System.out.println("Test Passed!"); } else{ System.out.println("Test Failed"); } driver.close(); } }

Explanation:

1) Import packages:

You have to import following packages at start:

org.openqa.selenium.*  -> contains the WebDriver class needed to instantiate a new browser loaded with a specific driver.

org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver  -> contains the FirefoxDriver class needed to instantiate a Firefox-specific driver onto the browser instantiated by the WebDriver class.

You will need to import more packages when you will develop your script more complex.

2) To instantiate driver object:
Setting GeckoDriver path on windows for Selenium WebDriver. Download gecko driver from here
 System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","<<Path of gecko driver>>");
 WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

3) Launch a browser:

We will use webdriver's get() method to launch a new browser session and directs it to the specified URL.

driver.get("http://google.com");

4) Get the actual page title:
The webdriver class has the getTitle() method that is used to get the page title of the current page.
driver.getTitle();

5) Compare the expected and actual values:
The following code is use to compare the actual title with the expected one.

if (Title.contentEquals("Google")){
           System.out.println("Test Passed!");
       } else {
           System.out.println("Test Failed");
  }

6) Terminating a browser session:
The "close()" method is used to close the browser window.

7) Running the test in eclipse:
On Eclipse's menu bar, click Run --> Run
OR
Press Ctrl+F11 to run the entire code.

Output :- Test Passed!

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