How to add Selenium WebDriver in Maven project?

What is Maven used for in Selenium?

We often say that Maven is used to manage projects, for the fact that Maven has to deal with the files as our project grows.

Selenium uses Maven for the same reason. We can get it automatically, we don't need to go download and put something in there. It is important for us to have a complete, clean and understandable set of tests: this is one of the reasons why we need Maven.

A Maven project has tests which are called test suites. What does it mean? We will see below a typical structure of a JUnit test suite.

How to run a Selenium test with Maven?

Maven has the dependency for SeleniumTestCase: maven-surefire-plugin. This is a Maven plugin and it is required to run the tests using the Surefire Plugin. But what if you want to run all your functional tests in one Maven build? This blog post will show you how to configure Maven to run all your tests in one Maven build.

If you want to learn how to run a single test case using Maven, read this blog post. Setting up the environment. I am using a Mac and I installed Java 8 with the default settings which are as follows: Download the Selenium Server and install it. Make sure you have Java 8 installed and unpack the Selenium Server tarball into your desired directory. Create a folder called bin in your project and create a file called execute.sh in the bin folder. In this file, paste the following code:

#!/bin/bash. Java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=./selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar
Dwebdriver.gecko.firefox.ie.edge.safari.opera.jar
jar /Users//selenium/selenium-server-standalone-3.jar --host . Replace by your own name and by your machine IP.