selenium Getting started with selenium Simple Selenium test in Java

Example

Below code is simple java program using selenium. The journey of the below code is

1. Open Firefox browser
2. Open google page
3. Print title of Google page
4. Find the search box location
5. Pass the value as Selenium in the search box
6. Submit the form
7. Shutdown the browser

package org.openqa.selenium.example;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class Selenium2Example  {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        // An implicit wait is to tell WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time 
        // when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available. 
        // The default setting is 0. Once set, the implicit wait is set for the life of the WebDriver object instance.   
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        // Maximize the browser window to fit into screen
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        
        // Visit Google
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");

        // Check the title of the page
        System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());

        // Find the text input element by its name
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

        // Enter something to search for
        element.sendKeys("Selenium!");

        // Now submit the form. WebDriver will find the form for us from the element
        element.submit();

        //Close the browser
        driver.quit();
    }
}