Getting started with Selenium 4.0

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Selenium has been in the market for the past many years and has been dominating their competitors. In this blog, we will see how we can set up a selenium 4.0 maven project. We will be using Java as our primary language for coding.

Setting up the project

Create a new maven project in intellij.

Give a name to your project and click on finish.

Go to pom.xml file in your newly created project and add the following dependency.

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.0-alpha-6</version>
    </dependency>

Now our project is ready and we can now start with our code.
Go to src–>main–>test–>java and create a new java file.

chromedriver execution script

We will create a small automation script for initializing our webdriver, hitting a URL, printing the current URL, and then closing the driver instance.

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

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static java.lang.System.getProperty;

public class SeleniumChromeTest {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",getProperty("user.dir") + "/DriverFiles/chromedriver");

        //Setting up the driver and giving the path to the driver file
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        //Initialize the driver

        driver.get("https://google.in");
        //Hitting the URL you want to test
        driver.getTitle();
        //Get the title of the page
        System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        //printing the title of the page on the console
        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
        //Printing the URL for verifying that we have hit the correct URL

        driver.close();
        // To close window that has the focus

    }
}

For setting up the web driver we need to download the driver on our local system.
Chrome driver file download : https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
Test execution on chrome.

gecko driver (firefox) execution script



import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import static java.lang.System.getProperty;

public class SeleniumFirefoxTest {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",getProperty("user.dir") + "/DriverFiles/geckodriver");
        //Setting up the driver and giving the path to the driver file
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        //Initialize the driver

        driver.get("https://google.in");
        //Hitting the URL you want to test
        driver.getTitle();
        //Get the title of the page
        System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        //printing the title of the page on the console
        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
        //Printing the URL for verifying that we have hit the correct URL

        driver.close();
        // To close window that has the focus

    }
}