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Getting started with Selenium on Mac

Getting Selenium working on Mac



1. Download Java - jdk from:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Fllow the instructions to install jdk.

Add jdk installed path to your environment.

On Mac -

Go to the terminal and type

nano .profile

Type the folowing into your profile:

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_151.jdk/Contents/Homeexport JAVA_HOME

Select your Control key and o on your keyborad to write out.

Press Enter to accept the changes.

Then, Control and x to come off.

Check that jdk is installed.

Go to another terminal, type -

java -version

Something like the following should return-

 java version "1.8.0_151"Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-b12)Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)


2. Download Eclipse IDE for jee users-

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/keplersr2

Follow the instructions to installed your system type installation.


3. Download Chrome webDriver jar -

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads


4. Download the safariDriver from -

http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

Double click on it and click trust when safari prompt.

5.  Go to your eclipse IDE

Create a java project

And

Add the following with imports

//import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver;
public class Testing {

public static void main(String[] args) {
//FirefoxDriver fDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
//ChromeDriver cDriver = new ChromeDriver();
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver();                


}


}

comment out '//' and test one after the other.

There's another way to add Selenium jars to our project. This is through the use of maven.  
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