NetBeans IDE with Selenium and Chrome Driver - installation and setup

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NetBeans is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. NetBeans allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. NetBeans runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris. In addition to Java development, it has extensions for other languages like PHP, C, C++ and HTML5., Javadoc and Javascript. Applications based on NetBeans, including the NetBeans IDE, can be extended by third party developers

Selenium is a portable software-testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a playback (formerly also recording) tool for authoring tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license

Solving:

1. Download and install latest Java Development Kit ( JDK )

- goto Oracle Java Development Kit ( JDK ) official site :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

- download and install latest Java Development Kit ( JDK )

2. Download and install NetBeans IDE from official site

- goto NetBeans IDE official site in browser : https://netbeans.org/downloads/

- select NetBean version, we will use Java SE version, and click Download button

- install NetBeans IDE to your computer

3. Download Selenium standalone server from official site 

- goto official Selenium site : https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

- find paragraph "Selenium Standalone Server"

- find Download version 3.10.0 and click on link

4. Download Chromer Driver ( browser automation ) for Selenium

- goto official Selenium site : https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

- find header "Third Party Browser Drivers NOT DEVELOPED by seleniumhq"
and click on "Google Chrome Driver"

- in newly opened web-site of Chrome WebDriver site
click on ChromeDriver 2.35 link

- in new page of Chrome WebDriver site
click on ChromeDriver 2.35 link

- click on "chromedriver_win32.zip" link to start download Chrome Driver for Windows

- unzip chromerdriver_win32.zip

- create folder C:\selenium_browser_drivers and copy chromedriver.exe to folder

5. Run NetBeans IDE

6. Create new Java project in NetBeans IDE

- in NetBeans menu click "File", than click "New Project..."

- in NetBeans "New Project..." dialog 
1)  select category "Java"
2) select "Java Application"
3) click "Next >" button

- in NetBeans "New Java Application" dialog
1) type project name "SeleniumChrome"
2) click "Finish" button

7. Import selenium-standalone jar into Netbeans IDE project

- right mouse click on "SeleniumChrome" in Project Tree
- in menu select "Properties"

- in NetBeans "Project Properties" dialog :
1) select Category "Libraries"
2) click "Add JAR/Folder" button

- in NetBeans "Add JAR/Folder" dialog :
1) find and select selenium-server-standalone-3.10.0.jar 
2) click "Open" button

- in NetBeans "Project Properties" dialog  - click "Ok" button

8. Copy and paste following Java code for Selenium simple test into Netbeans IDE

/*
 * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
 * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */
package seleniumchrome;


import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;


import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

/**
 *
 * @author your_name :)
 */
public class SeleniumChrome {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
     
        System.setProperty(
                "webdriver.chrome.driver",
                "/selenium_browser_drivers/chromedriver.exe"
// C:\selenium_browser_drivers\chromedriver.exe
        );
     
        // Create a new instance of the Chrome driver
     
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        // And now use this to visit Google
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
        // Alternatively the same thing can be done like this
        // driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

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

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

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

        // Check the title of the page
        System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());
     
        // Google's search is rendered dynamically with JavaScript.
        // Wait for the page to load, timeout after 10 seconds
        (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
            public Boolean apply(WebDriver d) {
                return d.getTitle().toLowerCase().startsWith("cheese!");
            }
        });

        // Should see: "cheese! - Google Search"
        System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());
     
     
     
        //Close the browser
        driver.quit();
     
    }
 
} // code end :)

9. Run Selenium project in NetBeans IDE

Hooray !!! Enjoy NetBeans IDE with Selenium and Chrome Driver