SELENIUM WebDriver Script program with Explanation and Example

Prerequisites for writing Selenium WebDriver Script:

Scenario’s:

Launch firefox browser and open “stqatools.com”.

Wait until full page load.

Get page title and store into string.

Store Expected page title into string.

Verify Actual and Expected page title then print the verification result.

Close the web browser.

Example: First Selenium WebDriver script:

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class First_Script {

           
 public static void main(String[] args) {

            // Set gecko driver location
            System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:\\geckodriver\\geckodriver.exe");

            // Create object of webdriver
            WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

            // Open url
            driver.get("https://stqatools.com");

            // Wait until page load
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

            // Get page title
            String Actual = driver.getTitle();

            // Get Expected page title
            String Expected = "Software Testing Quality Automation Tutorials";

            // compare the actual title with expected one
            if (Actual.equals(Expected)) {

            System.out.println("Test Passed!");
            } else {
                        System.out.println("Test Failed");
            }
            driver.close();
            }
}

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class First_Script {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Set gecko driver location

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:\\geckodriver\\geckodriver.exe");

// Create object of webdriver

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// Open url

driver.get("https://stqatools.com");

// Wait until page load

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// Get page title

String Actual = driver.getTitle();

// Get Expected page title

String Expected = "Software Testing Quality Automation Tutorials";

// compare the actual title with expected one

if (Actual.equals(Expected)) {

System.out.println("Test Passed!");

} else {

System.out.println("Test Failed");

}

driver.close();

}

Output :

Test Passed!

1	Test Passed!

Import packages:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver:- 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 into the browser instantiated by the WebDriver class.

To instantiate driver object:

Setting GeckoDriver path on windows for Selenium WebDriver script.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\Workspace\\geckodriver\\geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\Workspace\\geckodriver\\geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

Launch a browser:

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

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

1	WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

Wait Until Page load:

Using implicitlywait wait until page loading

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

1	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Get the actual page title:

The webdriver class has the getTitle() method that is used to get the page title of the current page.

String Actual = driver.getTitle();

1	String Actual = driver.getTitle();

Store Expected page title into string:

String Expected = "Software Testing Quality Automation Tutorials";

1	String Expected = "Software Testing Quality Automation Tutorials";

Compare the expected and actual values:

The following code is use to compare the actual title with the expected one.

// compare the actual title with expected one

if (Actual.equals(Expected)) {

System.out.println("Test Passed!");

} else {

System.out.println("Test Failed");

}

// compare the actual title with expected one

if (Actual.equals(Expected)) {

System.out.println("Test Passed!");

} else {

System.out.println("Test Failed");

}

Terminating a browser session:

The “close()” method is used to close the browser window.

driver.close();

1	driver.close();

Running the test in eclipse:

On Eclipse’s menu bar, click Run –> Run

Press Ctrl+F11 to run the entire code.

Locating GUI WebElements:

Locating WebElements in WebDriver is done by using the “findElement(By.locator())” method. Using different locators for Selenium WebDriver script.