Tutorial 2- Working with various browsers

This is the third tutorial in selenium-java sereis. In the last tutorial, we had studied about identifying the elements on a webpage. In this tutorial we are going to study about how to work with different web browsers!

What you will Learn (Ctrl+Click to follow link):

Working with Chrome Browser
Working with Firefox Browser
Working with Internet Explorer browser
Launch all the 3 browsers

Working with Chrome Browser:

In the DAY1 project that we had created earlier, create a new class ‘Browsers’. Create an instance of ChromeDriver & navigate to a url, write below 2 lines:
ChromeDriver cd = new ChromeDriver();
cd.get(“https://google.com”);

Make sure to import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

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Run, you will see an IllegalStateException. This says that the path to driver executable must be set by chrome driver

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To resolve this exception, go tohttps://selenium.dev/ and come to the page bottom. You would see ‘Third Party’ link

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Click this link, the below page would come up

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Under the ‘Browser Drivers’ section, you would see ‘Google ChromeDriver’ link, see above. Click this link. The below page comes up that shows the latest stable release link

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Click this link, the below page comes up

Also read: Configure Selenium-Java Webdriver in Eclipse

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Download win32 zip file andextract zip in a location. This zip file contains chromedriver.exe. Add below line in the script

System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “C:\\Users\\DELL\\Desktop\\TRAINING\\Software\\chromedriver.exe”);

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Run, we no more see the exception, the chrome launches and navigates to google.com.Notice the message at the top LHS “Chrome is being controlled by automated test software”. So we have created our first selenium script successfully!

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Now remove the protocol https from line#10

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Re-run the script. This time a blank browser opens that does NOT navigate to google.com.

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We get a WebDriverException as seen below. So protocol is very important

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Let us re-add the https protocol

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So this is how we work with chrome browser to automate our scripts.

Let us comment the 3 lines code that we have written for chrome browser

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Working with Firefox Browser:

Create an instance of FirefoxDriver & navigate to a url, write below 2 lines:
FirefoxDriver fd = new FirefoxDriver();
fd.get(“https://yahoo.com”);

Make sure to import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

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Run, we will get IllegalStateException saying that gecko driver is missing, see below

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Go to https://selenium.dev/thirdparty/ , you would see ‘Mozilla GeckoDriver’ link

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Click this link, below page comes up where you would see ‘Releases’ under ‘Downloads’ section

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Click ‘Releases’, come to the page bottom, download & unzip geckodriver win64 in your local m/c

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Now add below line

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Run, you might still get WebDriverException, a blank firefox window might open that does not navigate to url (see figure 20)

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To fix this issue, install latest FF versionhttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
After installing latest firefox, re-run the script, the error should get resolved, firefox browser should launch & navigate to facebook.com

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So this is how we work with firefox browser to automate our scripts.

Let us comment the 3 lines code that we have written for firefox browser

Working with Internet Explorer browser:

Create an instance of InternetExplorerDriver & navigate to a url, write below 2 lines:
InternetExplorerDriver ie = new InternetExplorerDriver();
ie.get(“https://gmail.com”);

Make sure to import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

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Run, we will get an IllegalException

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Go to https://selenium.dev/downloads/& download 64 bit Windows IE

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Let us add the below line

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Run the script, IE browser opens & navigates to gmail.com

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Launch all the 3browsers:

Let us uncomment all 3 browsers

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Run, we see 3 browsers open

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So in this tutorial, we have seen how to work with different browser types: chrome, firefox, IE.

In the next tutorial, we would study about Web Driver Interface

Thank you for reading!

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