How do I configure Selenium WebDriver? I have automated test cases using Selenium with Java. Now I need to automate upload and download of a file using WebDriver. I had added webdriver-common-0.9.7376.jar. I like to use Internet Explorer. How can I do that?
I'm just declaring variable and using driver
private static WebDriver driver;
driver.findElement(By.id(upload)).sendKeys("file to be upload");
Is this correct?
Ques. 1: How to configure WebDriver?
Ans: There are 2 ways: 1) Adding "selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar" only
OR,
2) Adding "selenium-java-2.29.0.jar" and all the jars located on "selenium-java-2.29.0\selenium-2.29.0\libs" folder
You can download "selenium-server-2.29.0.zip" and "selenium-java-2.29.0.zip" from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/detail?name=selenium-server-2.29.0.zip and http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/detail?name=selenium-java-2.29.0.zip respectively.
Extract them and you could get corresponding jar files to add.
Ques. 2: How to instantiate IE and how to upload file?
Ans: The java code as below:
File file = new File("C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.findElement(By.id("upload")).sendKeys("file to be upload");
If "File file = new File("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe");" doesn't work download "IEDriverServer" and replace that line with below:
File file = new File("E:\\Ripon\\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.29.1\\IEDriverServer.exe");
[Note: You can download "IEDriverServer" from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list ]
You need to add all jar after downloading selenium-java 2.25 0r any version. First add all jar then all all lib folder jar.
selenium-java-2.25.0.jar
selenium-java-2.25.0-srcs.jar and then all lib jar (Don't forget to add all lib folder jar)
Without instantiate driver for your browser, it won't open a browser window to do the upload/download operation. If you're using IE you've to write driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
Instead of the old and outdated webdriver-common package, you probably need the newest selenium-java from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list.
If you'll ever also need running Selenium RC locally, or Remote WebDriver ot Selenium Grid, you'll need the selenium-server package there (if you don't yet know what these are, just take selenium-java).
In both cases, for running InternetExplorerDriver, you'll also need the IEDriverServer from the page mentioned above. It's up to you whether to use the 32 or 64 bit version.
You can find an example of setting it up here in the documentation. If you dig around a bit, you'll find many more useful information in that documentation.
For example, for Internet explorer, you'll do:
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\IEDriverServer.exe");
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
// your testing code
driver.quit();
Your method of uploading a file is correct.
And as of now (Selenium v2.29.0), you can't download files via any WebDriver. If you really want to do so, you'll have to find another way.
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I'm trying to create a jar that enables people to launch web browser drivers through this library.
So the idea is to have one project "ToBecomeJar" have chromedriver (does not have a file extension) as an item in a "drivers" folder and using it in its code as:
private WebDriver getDriver(){
System.setProperty(CHROME_DRIVER_PROPERTY, "drivers/chromedriver");
driver =new ChromeDriver();
return driver;
}
The issue here is that when I turn this project into a library, of course the "PathToDriver" will be taken as an absolute path when used, leading to my new project needing path structure exactly the same as the library with the driver there.
Is there any way to make this relative?
I've tried working with a resource folder and calling the resource with .getResource but I really can't manage to make it work. When looking into this people mention that it should become .getResourceStream as it becomes something other then a file, but that doesn't work for me as it's not a text file I'm trying to use.
Try to use 'user.dir' which is an environment var of the JVM.
It can be used to construct the path string of your driver executable:
private WebDriver getDriver(){
System.setProperty(CHROME_DRIVER_PROPERTY, System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/drivers/chromedriver");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
return driver;
}
You can extract the needed resources from jar to a temporary folder during the startup of your app and then point to that folder for the proper drivers.
Below are my AutoIt Script :
ControlFocus("Open","","Edit1")
ControlSetText("Open","","Edit1","C:\\project\\data\\data.csv")
ControlClick("Open","","Button1")
And Converting the file to exe which is used in the java file as below.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\project\\script\\TestAutoIt3.exe");
Now I have to upload 10 files, I have two Questions here:
Can I pass the fileName dynamically and create exe files?
If I want to run this script in others system , the exe file will
not work because the project might be in some other path. How can I
handle this?
Thanks in Advance?
To upload file using Selenium + Java you need below code:
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://page.com"); // This is the page with file upload field
WebElement fileInput = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#type='file']"));
fileInput.sendKeys("C:\\Path\\To\\File.jpg");
Please use the answer given from Andersson, So that there is no headache of maintaining autoIt Files(exe/au3). And no extra work needed if you are using your code in someone else systems.
I am developing a framework using selenium webdriver in Java. I have two maven projects. One is for the framework and other is for the test project.
In order to launch launch ChromeDriver, I need to set the system property with the path of the chromedriver.exe file. I am doing this in DriverFactory.java which is in /src/main/java of the Framework Project. Now, if I place the exe files in src/main/resources/drivers, Java complains that the file is not found. The code is :
private static String chromeDriverLocation = "drivers/chromedriver.exe";
File cDriver = new File(DriverFactory.class.getResource(chromeDriverLocation).getFile());
// Is it executable
if (!cDriver.canExecute()) {
cDriver.setExecutable(true);
}
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", DriverFactory.class.getResource(chromeDriverLocation).getFile());
I tried placing this file in src/main/resources/drivers in the Test Project and modified the code like :
private static String chromeDriverLocation = System.getProperty("user.dir")+ "\\classes\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverLocation);
Though the above piece of code works in local when executed through Jenkins(Maven), I am not sure if this is the best way. Can someone suggest other good ways of achieving this ?
As an option, you may place the chromedriver.exe file into a directory added to PATH. In this case running the ChromeDriver will be as simple as creating an instance of new ChromeDriver() without dealing with system properties.
If you still would like to store chromedriver.exe under Resources, you may get it as steam, save to a file and set the "webdriver.chrome.driver" property:
InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("chromedriver.exe");
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("chromedriver.exe");
IOUtils.copy(in, out);
I recently started up coding with Selenium and Java. I have a basic test set up and things seem to be working with Firefox. I would like test on Chrome as well. But when I define the Webdriver as ChromeDriver, I get an error saying I need to define it on the system path.
I used Maven to download all the dependencies, but now I don't know how to reference them properly.
My issue:
protected void setUpBeforeTestClass(){
// define path to ChromeDriver
// cause I get the error "The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property"
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
// driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver = new ChromeDriver();
String url = urls[0]; // pull in from array of urls
driver.get(url);
}
Maven downloads dependencies to:
C:\Users\{username}\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\ ...
And ChromeDriver is in that folder.
How can I reference this folder to pull in ChromeDriver without hard-coding the path? (I'm not looking to modify my system environment variables)
My goal is that I can just download my Java classes and Maven dependencies on any machine and run the tests.
You need to download the Chrome Driver Binary and put it somewhere on your computer. Somewhere like "C:/Selenium/chromedriver.exe". You can find it here. You can then access it by using something like:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/Selenium/chromedriver.exe"));
As per answers, I found that it is the binary that I was missing. Damn.
I found this:
https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager
This helps out a lot in terms of managing the webdrivers I want to use. I don't have to download the webdrivers myself, this does it for me.
Download the binary from here:-
http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.19/
Use below code:-
WebDriver driver=null;
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./src//lib//chromedriver");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("test-type");
capabilities.setCapability("chrome.binary","./src//lib//chromedriver");
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
Hope it help :)
Get back to me if still facing issue :)
As part of my project setup, I have two projects one as libraries and other as Selenium.
I have all the browser setup in libraries project with /src/main/resource having chromedriver.exe
Selenium project has all the pagefactory classes and this project has dependency on Library.
However when i am running project on slave I am getting following error message:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable does not exist: c:\jenkins_slave10\workspace\TEST-Demos\file:\C:\Users\svc-hudson\.m2\repository\com\bskyb\automation\crm\libraries\1.1-SNAPSHOT\libraries-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar!\chromedriver\windows\chromedriver.exe
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:177)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.checkExecutable(DriverService.java:117)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:112)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:89)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:149)
at com.abc.automation.crm.actions.BrowserSetup.openBrowserChrome(BrowserSetup.java:38)
at com.abc.automation.crm.actions.Search.setup(Search.java:111)
at com.abc.automation.crm.actions.Search.directorynumber(Search.java:35)
at com.abc.automation.crm.stepdefs.Demo.i_search_for_directory_number(Demo.java:34)
Did you try setting the system property to specify the chromedriver.exe location?
Either start the selenium server with
-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=c:\path\to\your\chromedriver.exe
or
set the system property in your code:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/path/to/your/chromedriver.exe");
You should not pack chromedirver on jar.
Try to add prebuild step in jenkins that will download chromdriver to your project folder in workspace and set relative path to it.
Error is saying that the path you have specified is not correct path.
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/home/path/Downloads/chromedriver"); // specify complete path.
WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver();
Might be possible that chrome driver is not compatible with OS. You have to check this. You can download driver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.16/
and extract .zip file.
Error is saying that the path you have specified is not correct.
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "c://jars//imp//IEDriverServer.exe"); // complete path.
WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver();
I think you are missing specify your path with double '//' like below
c://jars//imp//IEDriverServer.exe