NetBeans IDE for Selenium test automation (Maven, JUnit, Firefox browser and Java)

In this post earlier we set up NetBeans IDE for Selenium test automation without any testing framework and we had to download selenium server and Gecko driver manually.

But with Maven and a testing framework our work will be much easier. We will use JUnit 5 as a testing framework.

1. Run NetBeans IDE and create new Maven based Java Application project:

2. Enter name, location and Group id:

3. File > New > Other > select Selenium Test Case:

4.  Enter Class name and a package name, then click Finish:

5. A class with a simple test example will be created as well as a pom.xml file:

6. Open pom.xml file and update it to use new versions of Selenium and JUnit.

Just copy/paste the following dependencies instead of old ones:

Selenium:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>3.7.1</version>
        </dependency> 

JUnit:

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
            <version>5.0.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency> 

7. Open our test class and modify it with the following code:

package com.blogspot.autoqalab;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class PlaygroundTest {
    
    @Test
    public void testTitle() throws Exception {

        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.get("https://automation-playground.blogspot.com");

        // Check the title of the page
        // Wait for the page to load, timeout after 10 seconds
        (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
            @Override
            public Boolean apply(WebDriver d) {
                return driver.getTitle()
                        .equalsIgnoreCase("Automation Playground");
            }
        });

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

8. Mouse right click on the test class > Test File or just click Ctrl + F6 to run the Selenium test

The following test scenario will be executed:

• run Firefox browser
• go to https://automation-playground.blogspot.com
• verify the blog's title
• close Firefox browser

Test passed !