Selenium with Java – Step-by-Step Beginner’s Tutorial

Step 1: Import the Required Libraries

Before writing the script, you need to tell Java which Selenium classes you’re using.

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

These two lines import the basic WebDriver interface and the Chrome-specific driver.

Step 2: Set the Path to ChromeDriver

Now, you must tell Java where to find the chromedriver.exe file you downloaded earlier. Don’t forget to replace your chrome driver path.

System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “Your_chromedriver_path”);

Replace the path above with the location of your ChromeDriver file. Use double backslashes (\\) on Windows.

Step 3: Launch Chrome Browser

Now we’ll launch a Chrome window using Selenium.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

This creates a new instance of the Chrome browser. The driver variable controls the browser.

Step 4: Visit a Website

Let’s open Google.

driver.get(“https://www.google.com”);

This tells Selenium to open the given URL in the Chrome window.

Step 5: Print Page Title

Once the page is loaded, you can read the page title and print it to the console.

String title = driver.getTitle();

System.out.println(“Page Title: ” + title);

Step 6: Close the Browser

Always close the browser after test runs to avoid memory issues.

driver.quit();

This closes all Chrome windows opened by the test.

Full Code

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Set path to chromedriver.exe

        System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “Your Chromedriver path”);

        WebDriver driver = null;

        try {

            // Launch Chrome browser

            driver = new ChromeDriver();

            // Open a website

            driver.get(“https://www.google.com”);

            // Get and print page title

            String title = driver.getTitle();

            System.out.println(“Page Title: ” + title);

        } catch (Exception e) {

            System.out.println(“Something went wrong: ” + e.getMessage());

        } finally {

            // Close browser if it was opened

            if (driver != null) {

                driver.quit();

            }

        }

    }

}

Output

This extracts the page title from Google’s website.