Working with different browser drivers.

To work with any browser, we need the executable driver for specific browsers. Here, I will explain about 3 major browsers & their executable driver that we are using in Windows environment.

1	Mozilla Firefox	Geckodriver.exe	System.setProperty(“webdriver.gecko.driver”,”/path/to/geckodriver.exe”)
2	Chrome	Chromedriver.exe	System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”,”/path/to/chromedriver.exe”)
3	IE	IEDriverServer.exe	System.setProperty(“webdriver.ie.driver”,”/path/to/ IEDriverServer exe”)

In the above table I have added the Browser Name, Executable Driver & How to set the driver in selenium. Click here to download the executable drivers. Extract the .zip file & place in your workspace.

So, our drivers are now ready, let’s start our 1^st selenium script to open firefox browser & navigate to any URL.

To do that, Open eclipse > Right click on Project’s src > New > Class > Insert the class name > Select the check box public static void main(String[] args) > Click on Finish

This will create a default package & inside that there will be a class with main method.

In the above class, write the below code to open firefox browser & navigate to URL.

              System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","path/to/geckodriver.exe");

              WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

              driver.get(" http://the-automation-testing.blogspot.in/");

              System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

Code Overview:

• In the 1^st line, we have set the path of browser driver.
•  In 2^nd line, we have created the instance of Firefox driver.
•  In 3^rd line, we are navigating to the site URL.
•  In 4^th line, we are printing the title of the web page.

Similarly, to open application in chrome or IE we need to set the path of browser driver & need to create instance for specific driver as below:

For chrome:

       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","path/to/chromedriver.exe");

       WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

For IE:

       System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","path/to/IEServerDriver.exe");

       WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver ();

NOTE : After creating the object for any browser, we need to import the driver class from org.openqa.selenium