Wednesday 9 September 2015

Download and Configure Selenium with Intellij IDE.



             In last post, you have learned how to create project in Intellij IDE. In this post, we will see :-
  • Download Selenium JAR

  • Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Index Page For Selenium Versions
    Configure Selenium JAR in Intellij IDE

Downloading the Selenium/WebDriver 2:-
            Recently WebDriver committee has pushed WebDriver 3 in the beta, so Selenium 2 (also known as WebDriver) is not readily available for downloading under download section of official website. We have to click on previous releases link to download stable version of WebDriver which was 2.53.1

Selenium Website
Selenium Website

        
               After clicking on previous releases, you will be navigated to index page which has enlisted previous version of WebDriver. Click on link 2.53 as shown in image.



Click on link selenium-server-2.53.0.zip to start the download of required Selenium WebDriver.



Download  Selenium
Download  Selenium

Zip file will start downloading after you click the link.

Selenium Zip file is getting downloaded
Selenium Zip file is getting downloaded

      You can find your zip file in your downloaded folder.

Configure Selenium JAR in Intellij IDE:-
           Now that we have required JAR files with us we can configure those files in our Intellij IDE so we can start writing our first Selenium Script. We will create new folder libs in our project as shown in image.

Create new folder in Intellij
Create new folder in Intellij

Our new project structure is now looks like as below:-

Updated Folder Structure
Updated Folder Structure

We will copy all the jars from lib folder of downloaded zip to lib folder created under this project. Note that you have to copy both selenium jars along with all jar present in libs folder of zip file.


Copying Jars from Zip folder to Project Folder.
Copying Jars from Zip folder to Project Folder.

You can see jars files are reflected under the project.

Updated Libs folder
Updated Libs folder


            We are just one step away from completing our configuration.  We need to add this jars file as Library for the project. Open Module Setting by Right Clicking on Project. Click on ‘+’ button and then click on first option ‘JARs or Directories’. Select the libs folder as directory and then click on OK button. Then Click on OK button.


Open Module Setting in Intellij
Open Module Setting in Intellij

Add JARs or directories as dependency in Intellij
Add JARs or directories as dependency in Intellij


Select Libs Folder as dependancy
Select Libs Folder as dependency

Newly Added Dependancy
Newly Added Dependancy

Congratulations! You have configured Selenium JARs with Intellij IDE.

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