How to run the selenium test scripts in Chrome/IE browser ?

To run the selenium test cases in Chrome/IE browser is necessary and need of today's web world as Chrome being the one of the best and most widely used web browser.

Selenium by default supports only Mozilla Firefox . 

To run your tests in Chrome browser please do the following set-up.

1. Download chrome browser related jar file from here.

2. Set the System configuration by adding the following code.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "Path to chrome related jar file downloaded in step 1");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

To run the test in Internet explorer.

1. Download IE browser related jar file from here.

2. Set the System configuration by adding the following code.

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\Users\\ajain5\\Downloads\\IEDriverServer.exe");
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

Here is post which explains you how to handle basic authentication.

Problem:

Some of the applications that are secured with Basic Authentication. If you want to access those applications first you need to pass credentials. Those applications will launch a system level pop-up which cant not be handled by selenium.

IF you access below url it will ask for authentication.

http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth



Solution:

By specifying userName and password in URL when accessing the page we can avoid system level dialog. This approach will work for HTTP and HTTPS pages.


Reference: http://elementalselenium.com/tips/13-work-with-basic-auth

Example:

This post explains you how to run your webdriver script in google chrome..

Firefox Browser:
driver=new FirefoxDriver();  --it will work and will launch your firefox browser,

Google Chrome:

driver= new Chromedriver() --- it will throw an error.

Error:


FAILED CONFIGURATION: @BeforeClass beforeClass
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list

To over come this we need to download the chrome driver.exe and we have to specify the apth of chrome driver in the script

Download path:
http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list

take the latest exe file. see the below image



package testng;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class ChromedriverTest {

public WebDriver driver;
  @BeforeClass
  public void beforeClass() {
// Create chrome driver instance...
 System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\xxx\\Jar\\chromedriver.exe");
 driver=new ChromeDriver();
  }


  @Test
  public void testChromedriverTest() throws Exception {
 driver.navigate().to("http://bing.com");
 Thread.sleep(5000);
  }

  @AfterClass
  public void afterClass() {
 driver.quit();
  }

}

Use the above code your script will run in google chrome.