How to Run Selenium WebDriver Script in Chrome browser

Executing Selenium WebDriver Script in Chrome Browser:

Here in this post, we see how to run Selenium WebDriver Script in Chrome Browser. Moving forward, we need to have Chromedriver.exe and Selenium WebDriver.

Assuming that you have already Installed Selenium WebDriver.

If you want to install Selenium WebDriver, click on the link below to install Selenium WebDriver in few clicks.

How To Download And Install Selenium WebDriver

Each and every browser has its own Driver to execute Selenium WebDriver Scripts. Selenium WebDriver supports browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari etc.,

Here we are going to see how to run Selenium WebDriver Script in Chrome Browser.

What is ChromeDriver and What it does?

ChromeDriver is a separate executable that WebDriver uses to control Chrome. This executable starts a server on local system to run the Selenium WebDriver Test Scripts.

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Steps to run Selenium WebDriver Script in Chrome Browser 

Step 1: Download ChormeDriver.exe

Click here to download Chrome driver

Download the latest release of Chrome driver which is compatible to your test environment. Unzip the downloaded compressed file and keep it somewhere on a known location on your system.

Step 2: Executing the Test Script in Chrome Browser

Find the sample script (using Java) mentioned below to run test script in Chrome browser. Execute it to run the test in Chrome browser which will first open chrome browser and then open the appropriate URL mentioned in the script

Quick note:

To launch Chrome Browser, we have to do as mentioned below:

1. Set a system property “webdriver.chrome.driver” to the path of executable file “Chromedriver.exe“. If you miss this, you will face an error “The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property“.

2. Instantiate a ChromeDriver class

package seleniumTutorial;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class ChormeBrowserScript {

         public static void main(String [] args) throws InterruptedException{
                  //System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",path of executable file "Chromedriver.exe")
                  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/SeleniumEnvironment/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe");
                  WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
                  driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com/software-testing-interview-questions-free-ebook/");
                  System.out.println("Selenium Webdriver Script in Chrome browser | Software Testing Material");
                  driver.close();
           }
}