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Installation Steps For Selenium

In this article, I will elaborate the installation steps for selenium

Prerequisite

First of all, uninstall all versions of Java from your machine. In my machine I have following version of Java

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Setting Up The Environment

For installing selenium, we will perform following activities

Download and install JDK
Setting up the environment variables.
Download selenium web driver
Download and set-up of eclipse
Install TestNG

Download And Install JDK

To download JDK

Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
Go to ‘Java SE Development Kit 8u121’ table.
Click on ‘Accept License Agreement’ radio button
Click on 'jdk-8u121-windows-x64.exe' (if you have 64-bit operating system) or 'jdk-8u121-windows-i586.exe' link (if you have 32-bit operating system).

Picture showing the list of JDK to be downloaded based on the operating system

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Once you click on the exe file, it goes downloaded on your machine.

To install JDK, double click on the exe file.

Setting Up The Environment Variables

For setting up the environment variables

Go to control panel and click on ‘Edit the system environment variables’

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A system properties pop up will come as shown in figure below.

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Click on ‘Environment Variables…’. Following window appears

Picture showing the window with the list of environment variables

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Click on ‘New…’ button.
A pop up window appears as shown in figure below

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Set up the following variables and close environment variables screen

Variable Name	Variable Value
JAVA_HOME	C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121
PATH	%JAVA_HOME%\bin

Download Selenium Web Driver

For downloading selenium

Go to http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
Download 3.2.0 version (see the figure below)

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Download And Set-Up Of Eclipse

To download eclipse

Go to the URL - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/luna/R/eclipse-jee-luna-R-win32-x86_64.zip
A zip file gets downloaded on your system.
Unzip the file and double click on eclipse.exe to install.
Once you double click on eclipse, a window appears asking you to provide workspace. You may create a folder in any directory as per your convenience. You may need this folder to select workspace. Click OK.
Once the eclipse is installed, a welcome message screen will appear. Close the screen.
On the top right hand side, check the default perspective.

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It should be Java. As you can see in the above screen shot, the default perspective is Java EE. It should be changed to Java (Click on Window → Open Perspective → Other → java)

Picture showing an option to change the default perspective

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Install Testng

To install TestNG

Go to eclipse.
Go to help and click on ‘Install new software’.
In ‘Work with’ section, enter this URL - http://beust.com/eclipse

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Press Enter.

Once you are done with all the steps. You are ready to create your first program in selenium.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Thursday, March 23, 2017

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