Applitools - A Visual Testing AI Tool - Java,Selenium,Appium

You will learn , how to create a new eclipse work space , along with , how to create a new maven project which will have all the directories created such as - scr/test/resources, src/test/java, src/main/java etc.

GitHub Framework link: https://github.com/AnilPatidar/VisualTestFramework

Understanding of the getDriver() method :

getDriver() method has just two lines of code as follows:

Line 1: System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/anilpatidar/Downloads/chromedriver");

Line 2: return new ChromeDriver();

Line 1: Chrome does not work directly in selenium, it needs an EXE file (binary file) to work, and selenium uses to connect with the actual Chrome Driver. We need to let selenium know, where is that EXE file(binary file) kept in the system/machine (laptop/computer) so that selenium can pick that up and run.

so I have kept the EXE file in this path: Users/anilpatidar/Downloads/chromedriver , in your case, the path may differ, so you can set your machine path here.

Now the question should be, how to get this EXE file for chrome,

you can visit: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads to download the EXE file.

Now first check your chrome browser version in your machine (laptop/computer),

Let's suppose if it is 86.0.4240.22, now search for this version on the above link, and download the EXE file based on your computer/laptop operating system.

you will see the following options :

chromedriver_linux64.zip

chromedriver_mac64.zip

chromedriver_win32.zip

now download one of the zip files, download win32 if you are using Windows operating system, download mac64 if you are using the MAC machine, or download Linux if you are using Linux operating system.

after downloading the zip file, unzip the file in the desired folder, now you have to get the full path of this directory/folder and set the path as below, instead of '/Users/anilpatidar/Downloads/chromedriver' , you have to set your machine path of chrome EXE.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/anilpatidar/Downloads/chromedriver");

That's it.

Now coming to line 2: it is just simply creating an object of chrome browser, and initializing the session, if you have set the chrome EXE path in line 1 wrong, you test will fail at line 2.