The very first step is to open a browser to start the automation of any web application. Selenium provides support for multiple browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and IE. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to open a browser using selenium web driver in Java. We will see step by step with chrome browser, Firefox browser, and IE browser.

Open Chrome browser using selenium web driver

Download ChromeDriver.exe.

It will start a server at your machine to perform all the test communication. Download the chrome driver Link “http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.20/”; There is multiple option to download Chrome Driver Be careful download according to Operating System.

Create an object of ChromeDriver

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

 Set the system property

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", “c:\lib\chromedriver.exe”);

There are two parameters in setProperty. In 1^st   Parameter enters the name of the driver like “webdriver.chrome.driver” and In 2^nd you just need to enter the path of ChromeDriver.exe file that you just download I mention above.

Example to Open chrome browser using selenium

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

publicclass Main {
publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) {
 
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\Automation\selenium\lib_files\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://codebun.com/");
driver.close();
}
}

Open Firefox browser using selenium web driver

Download geckodriver.exe.

Download the Gecko driver for Firefox  Link “https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.9.0”;

There is multiple option to download gecko driver Be careful download according to Operating System.

Create an object of Firefox Driver

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

 Set the system property

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver ", “D:\Automation\selenium\lib_files\firefox\geckodriver.exe”);

There are two parameters in setProperty. In 1^st   Parameter enters the name of the driver like “webdriver.gecko.driver” and In 2^nd you just need to enter the path of the geckodriver.exe file that you just download I mention above.

Example to Open Firefox browser using selenium

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

publicclass Main {
 publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) {

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",
    "D:\Automation\selenium\lib_files\firefox\geckodriver.exe");
  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("http://codebun.com/");
  driver.close();
 }
}

Open IE browser using selenium web driver

Download IEDriverServer.exe

Download the chrome driver Link http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Create an object of Internet Explorer Driver

InternetExplorerDriverdriver = newInternetExplorerDriver();

Set the system property

There is Two parameter in setProperty. In 1^st   Parameter enters the name of the driver like “webdriver.ie.driver” and In 2^nd you just need to enter the path of IEDriverServer.exe file that you just download I mention above.

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", “D:\Automation\selenium\lib_files\Ie\IEDriverServer.exe”);

Example to Open IE browser using selenium

importorg.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

publicclass Main {
 publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) {
   String service = "D:\Automation\selenium\lib_files\Ie\IEDriverServer.exe";
   System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", service);
   InternetExplorerDriver  driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
  driver.get("http://codebun.com");
 
 }
}

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