About Selenium WebDriver

WebDriver is a library the assists us in interacting with the web browser same as humans would do. It is capable of executing tests on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Ghost Driver and Opera deployed on any of Windows, OSX or Linux platform.

List of programming language supported for scripting is big. Some of the popular languages are Java, C#, Ruby, .Net, Python and Pearl

Java seems bit friendly to me, so in this post we will use that as our scripting weapon.

Selenium Webdriver Architecture

In simple words, initially code is written in any of the programming language using the webdriver client. It interacts with the webdriver api and finally command is sent to the browser driver wherein final action is performed.

Setting Up Java_Home

1. Install JDK from here
2. Set JAVA_HOME environment variable.

Value of JAVA_HOME will be the path to root directory of JDK.

Installing Eclipse

1. Download eclipse from here
2. You will get it in zip format, so unzip it to a locattion using 7Zip, Winrar etc
3. To launch eclipse, navigate to the extracted directory and double-click on eclipse.exe (On Windows) and eclipse.app (On Mac)

Creating first WebDriver project