Complete Guide: Setting Up Selenium with Java for Test Automation - Nytrotype/Selenium-with-Java-automation-work GitHub Wiki

Below is a step-by-step guide to install and run Selenium with Java on your system.

✅ Download JDK: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/
✅ Install and configure JAVA_HOME environment variable:

• Open System Properties → Advanced → Environment Variables.
• Add a new system variable:

  JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-XX
  

• Add Java’s bin folder to the Path variable:

  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-XX\bin
  

🔹 IntelliJ IDEA (Recommended) – [Download IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/)
🔹 VS Code – [Download VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/)
🔹 Eclipse IDE – [Download Eclipse](https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/)

✅ Download the Selenium Java Client Library:

• Visit https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/
• Extract the JAR files.
• Add them to the project’s dependencies.

✅ Install WebDriver for your browser:

• ChromeDriver (for Chrome): https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• GeckoDriver (for Firefox): https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

🔹 Place the downloaded chromedriver.exe or geckodriver.exe inside your project folder.

✅ Install Maven: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
✅ Verify installation by running:

mvn -version

✅ Create a Maven Project (Skip if using a standard Java project). ✅ Add Selenium dependencies to pom.xml:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.x.x</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Create a Java class and write a simple Selenium script:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class SeleniumTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Set path for ChromeDriver
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\chromedriver.exe");

        // Launch Chrome
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");

        // Print page title
        System.out.println("Page Title: " + driver.getTitle());

        // Close browser
        driver.quit();
    }
}

✅ Open a terminal in VS Code or IntelliJ IDEA (Ctrl + ~)
✅ Navigate to your Java project folder:

cd path/to/your/project

✅ Compile & Run:

javac SeleniumTest.java
java SeleniumTest

✅ If using Maven, run:

mvn test

✅ Install TestNG in pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
    <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
    <version>7.x.x</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

✅ Create a TestNG.xml file for structured test execution:

<suite name="Test Suite">
    <test name="GoogleTest">
        <classes>
            <class name="SeleniumTest"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
</suite>

✅ Run TestNG:

mvn test