Use WebDriver to write robust, comprehensive tests and run them against any browser that has a WebDriver-compliant driver. Safari's driver is called safaridriver and has a preset available in most Selenium client libraries. Resolved issue 3462: For sendKeys, CMD key don't work for MAC Resolved issue 3541: Improve log between Client and ChromeDriver Resolved issue 3559: Output Chrome version when ChromeDriver reports incompatible. To install the chromedriver and selenium-webdriver I used npm install chromedriver —save npm install selenium-webdriver —save After running this code, the new chrome window opened with Google like it. Mkdir nodetesting && cd nodetesting npm init -y npm install selenium-webdriver. The next thing to do is to download the right web driver for the browser you will be testing on.

In this tutorial, we will set up our test environment to run the Selenium automation suite. We will install Java, download Eclipse, add Selenium jars to an Eclipse project, and then provide you a sample script to test the Selenium WebDriver installation.

Selenium Webdriver Installation Steps

Following steps will guide you through setting up Selenium WebDriver on your machine-
Step.1. Configuring Java on a machine.
Download the latest version of the Java Development Kit(JDK) from Oracle.com. Follow the steps mentioned to install JDK. We are installing JDK as it will be required for developing and running our automation scripts which are nothing but Java programs.
Step.2. Download eclipse or any Java IDE of your choice.
Download the latest version of the Java IDE you would like to use, for Eclipse the download link is Eclipse.org. Select the appropriate version of Eclipse depending on your system type- 34 bit or 64 bit.

Step.3. Download Selenium WebDriver jar from the Selenium.dev website.
Go to the Selenium.dev website and under “Selenium Client & WebDriver Language Bindings”, click on ‘Download’ link for language Java.

Unzip the package and place it on any directory as a library folder.
Step.4. Creating a project and configuring Selenium jars.

• Launch eclipse.exe.
• Set your workspace to any location preferably other than C:(a workspace is a physical location where we store our project or group of related projects).
• Now create a new project- File->New->Project…->Java->Java Project.
• Name your project and click Finish.
• Now you will see an src folder under your project. Under this we need to create a package-Right Click src->New->Package (Basically these packages are used to group together related classes). Name your package e.g. ‘myTestPackage’.
• Inside this package create a new class and name it e.g. Test, your Test.java class will get created.
  

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Step.5. Adding Selenium jars
This step is required for the Selenium installation in Eclipse. Right Click your project on the left and click on properties. A “Properties for {project name}” dialog box will appear. Click on “Java Build Path” on the left and then click on the Libraries tab on the right. In this tab click on the “Add External Jars.” button.

Now browse to the location where selenium libraries are placed (library folder Step#3). Make sure to add both the libraries-selenium-java-2.39.0.jar and selenium-java-2.39.0-srcs.jar along with the libraries present in the libs folder(selenium-2.39.0libs). The selected libraries will appear, click OK to add these libraries to your project. You can verify the same in the “Referenced Libraries” section under your project in the “Package Explorer” section on the left.
Step.6. Creating the first Selenium WebDriver project
Time to test the setup. Now, we will create our first selenium project, in which we will just open the Firefox browser and launch a website. The following steps are required to launch the firefox browser.

1. Download geckodriver.exe from GeckoDriver Github Release Page. Make sure to download the right driver file based on your platform and OS version.
2. Set the System Property for “webdriver.gecko.driver” with the geckodriver.exe path – System.setProperty(“webdriver.gecko.driver”,”geckodriver.exe path”);
   

Code snippet to launch the Firefox browser

To run the test, right-click on Test.java file on the Package Explorer section, hover over “Run As” and select “Java Application”. Firefox browser will launch and open artoftesting.com. Bootable mac os iso.

That’s all we have in this post. Check out our complete Selenium WebDriver tutorial here – Selenium WebDriver – Complete Step-by-Step Tutorial. Thanks.

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Selenium Webdriver Download Mac Download

To start any third party browser (Chrome, Opera etc.) Chrome browser on MAC using Selenium we have to use some drivers which will interact with the browsers.

In windows, we have already seen working with IE, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers as well.

In windows, it’s quite easy to download and specify the path in the program but in MAC we have to keep all the driver in a specific folder and then Selenium will start the execution directly.

First step- Download the drivers for MAC

Download link http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.23/

Second step- In MAC we have one directory called /usr/local/

In above location, you can create bin folder (if not created).

Now you have to copy the driver in /usr/local/bin and that all

Good thing which I like here is we don’t have to remember the path variable like webdriver.chrome.driver

Program for Chrome browser on MAC using Selenium

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publicstaticvoidmain(String[]args)throwsInterruptedException{ WebDriver driver=newChromeDriver(); driver.manage().window().maximize(); driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(1,TimeUnit.SECONDS); driver.get('http://learn-automation.com/'); } }

Hope you have liked the above article, I have used in a straight way but if you know any other way to handle drivers in Selenium then feel free to share your thoughts in comment section.