As of 2015, the WebDriver specification became part of the W3C standard. The drivers are external, to make it more robust. We need to set the path to the driver executable in order to use the specific
driver. This section describes how to use Internet Explorer.

Download the latest iedriver from the following location: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/

@Test
public void useInternetExplorerDriver() {
  // Start browser
  System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", FileUtil.findFileOnPath("IEDriverServer.exe"));
  final InternetExplorerDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
  
  // Open website
  driver.get("http://www.selenium-in-action.io");
  
  // Close browser
  driver.quit();
}

Find file on path

public class FileUtil {

  public static String findFileOnPath(final String fileName) {
    if (new File(FileUtil.class.getClassLoader().getResource(fileName).getPath()).canExecute()) {
      return FileUtil.class.getClassLoader().getResource(fileName).getPath();
    } else {
      return new File("src/main/resources/" + fileName).getAbsolutePath();
    }
  }

}

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As of 2015, the WebDriver specification became part of the W3C standard. The drivers are external, to make it more robust. We need to set the path to the driver executable in order to use the specific driver. (use `chmod +x [filename]` to make it executable on UNIX based systems) This section describes how to use Chrome.

Download the latest chromedriver from the following location: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

@Test
public void useChromeDriver() {
  // Start browser
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", FileUtil.findFileOnPath("mac/chromedriver"));
  final ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
  
  // Open website
  driver.get("http://www.selenium-in-action.io");
  
  // Close browser
  driver.quit();
}

Find file on path

public class FileUtil {

  public static String findFileOnPath(final String fileName) {
    if (new File(FileUtil.class.getClassLoader().getResource(fileName).getPath()).canExecute()) {
      return FileUtil.class.getClassLoader().getResource(fileName).getPath();
    } else {
      return new File("src/main/resources/" + fileName).getAbsolutePath();
    }
  }

}

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As of 2015, the WebDriver specification became part of the W3C standard. The drivers are external, to make it more robust. We need to set the path to the driver executable in order to use the specific driver. (use `chmod +x [filename]` to make it executable on UNIX based systems) This section describes how to use Firefox.

Download the latest geckodriver from the following location: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

@Test
public void useFireFoxDriver() {
  // Start browser
  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", FileUtil.findFileOnPath("mac/geckodriver"));
  final FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  
  // Open website
  driver.get("http://www.selenium-in-action.io");
  
  // Close browser
  driver.quit();
}

Find file on path

public class FileUtil {

  public static String findFileOnPath(final String fileName) {
    if (new File(FileUtil.class.getClassLoader().getResource(fileName).getPath()).canExecute()) {
      return FileUtil.class.getClassLoader().getResource(fileName).getPath();
    } else {
      return new File("src/main/resources/" + fileName).getAbsolutePath();
    }
  }

}

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