Configure Eclipse for Selenium

#1 Open Eclipse IDE

Run eclipse.exe from the extracted folder of Eclipse for java developers downloaded in the previous step.

Setting up Selenium with Eclipse

Follow the steps to setup selenium with eclipse


#1 - Installing Java
Install the latest version java in your computer (JDK - Java Development Kit).
You can download the latest version of Java from here



Run the .exe file downloaded follow the instructions in the screen to install java in your system


#2 - Download Eclipse

Download Eclipse for Java Developers.It's an open source software.Just download and extract it to a folder.You can directly run the eclipse.exe file from the extracted folder, no need of installation.

You can download eclipse from here.



#3 - Download Selenium Webdriver Client

Download Selenium Webdriver Client (Java) from here.It will be .zip file. Extract the .zip file to a folder in your system. This folder consists of all the jar files necessary for working in selenium.


Click here to Configure Eclipse for Selenium

Introduction to Selenium

Selenium is a software tool to support test automation of websites and its functionalities. For further information on selenium visit http://docs.seleniumhq.org/


Why people opt Selenium for Test Automation ?

• Selenium is an open source tool.
• It can run on any platform and works with the modern browsers such as Chrome and Firefox
• Selenium IDE is used to record test and debug application

The recent change in selenium is the introduction of the WebDriver API. This allows the developers write test scripts in any programming language such as Java, ruby etc... and other than that these languages allow Object-Oriented Programming concepts which makes your test script maintainable ,reusable and robust. From here we'll directly move on to setting up selenium and eclipse

Click here Setting up Selenium and Eclipse

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