Question

How do I configure Selenium WebDriver? I have automated test cases using Selenium with Java. Now I need to automate upload and download of a file using WebDriver. I had added webdriver-common-0.9.7376.jar. I like to use Internet Explorer. How can I do that?

I’m just declaring variable and using driver

private static WebDriver driver;
driver.findElement(By.id(upload)).sendKeys("file to be upload");

Is this correct?

Answer 1

Ques. 1: How to configure WebDriver?

Ans: There are 2 ways: 1) Adding “selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar” only

OR,
2) Adding “selenium-java-2.29.0.jar” and all the jars located on “selenium-java-2.29.0\selenium-2.29.0\libs” folder

You can download “selenium-server-2.29.0.zip” and “selenium-java-2.29.0.zip” from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/detail?name=selenium-server-2.29.0.zip and http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/detail?name=selenium-java-2.29.0.zip respectively.
Extract them and you could get corresponding jar files to add.

Ques. 2: How to instantiate IE and how to upload file?

Ans: The java code as below:

File file = new File("C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.findElement(By.id("upload")).sendKeys("file to be upload");

If “File file = new File(“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”);” doesn’t work download “IEDriverServer” and replace that line with below:

File file = new File("E:\\Ripon\\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.29.1\\IEDriverServer.exe");

[Note: You can download “IEDriverServer” from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list ]