Run the program

If you had add the selenium Jar in the buildpath, your program is ready to run.

Right click on the Java class -> Run As -> Java application.

You will get some warnings, ignore those as of now. Your browser will be launched and it will launch the firefox and it will go to google.com

Cool!!!! I ran my first automation program. It would be better if I know how it works.

Code Explanation

Congrats on successfully running the first program. Let me explain the code line by line here.

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException = This is where the program is begining to execute. The compiler will do the operations from here.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "path where u stored\\geckodriver.exe"); = This is the line helps the compiler to invoke the Firefox browser when WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); is encountered. The code cannot directly click on the browser and open it, it needs a intermediary and that is the geckodriver or chrome driver.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();= orders the program to open Firefox.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();= for opening Chrome. Selenium supports all the major browsers. But I recommend not to use Internet Explorer.

driver.get("http://www.google.com");= This will tell the browser to open google.com

driver.quit will close the browser.

Brain Teaser

driver.get() method is used to open any URL. There is another method, we can use to hit any URL. Find out what is that and How is that different from get method?