Selenium happens to be the most popular automation tool for testing, and Java is the most widely used programming language currently in the market. And each of these technologies as one unit is a combination for automation testing. And through this article, we provide complete insight into why we use Java prominently for Selenium. You can contact us for your Selenium training. We provide complete Selenium training for Selenium certification. Naresh I Technologies also is the number one computer training institute in Hyderabad and among the top five computer training institutes in India.

And we are going to cover the following topics. We will first cover the "Selenium," and then the
advantages of the Selenium. And then, we will see how we can make use of Java for Selenium. We will
then see what we should learn in Java for "Selenium" and end up with the demo on implementing the
Java for the Selenium.

Selenium an Introduction:

It's the most common open-source tool widely used for automating the tests done on web browsers. And in a nutshell, you can test the web applications only through the Selenium. You cannot test any desktop application or the software, or any mobile application through Selenium. You will find numerous Software testing and Mobile application testing tools introduced in the market like IBM's RFT, HP's QPT, the Appium, and numerous. However, Selenium governs the ecosphere of Automation testing. However, the question arises why is it so?

As a start-up and as mentioned, the Selenium is open source. And hence you do not need any license for using Selenium. And this is one of the most important advantages over the other testing tools. Let's now look at various other "advantages" in the upcoming "sections" of this article on Java and Selenium.

Various advantages are:

• You can carry out the test on any of the OS like Windows, Linux, or Mac.
• And you can carry out the test on a long-range of browsers like Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari.
• It integrates with the tools like TestNG and Junit for various test case management and generation of reports.
• For continuous testing, we can integrate it with Maven, Docker, and Jenkins to ensure continuous testing.
• And, we can make use of a long-range of programming languages for writing the test cases. They are like Java, C#, Python, PHP, .NET, and Perl. However, the most popularly used programming language is Java.

However, the question arises that why It's Java? In the upcoming section, we are going to discuss Java
for the Selenium. And you will find the reasons that make Java the most popular language for
automation.

Why Java for the Selenium?

Java happens to be the most "prominent" programming language for the Selenium all over the world. And either it is the US, or it is India, Java is "popular" everywhere.

Below you will find various reasons which proves that use of the Java for Selenium is the best.

Java is the most widely used language as far as the IT industry is concerned. It's a large community that supports together with a "huge" reference repository.

Around 77% of the "Selenium testers" make use of Java to make Knowledge sharing quite simple and easy.

Java is one of the oldest programming languages, and you will find under it an abundance of highly available frameworks, APIs, plugins, and libraries that support Java for test automation.

Java uses the JVM that ensures it is a platform-independent language, and in other words, you can run the Java on any of the Operating environments where we have the JVM installed.

It's "statically typed" the Java IDEs caters to us numerous feedbacks on errors that you might find in front of you on coding.

And we hope now you have all the reasons for believing in the popularity of Java for Selenium.

And the question comes to our mind, that what in Java we should know for making use of it with
Selenium. And in the next section of the article, we put forward the roadmap for you to begin.

What you learn in Java for using it in Selenium?

For making use of Java for Selenium, we need to have the detailed knowledge of the Java basics briefed here. You should know what it is. You should know about the data types, operators, keywords, access modifiers, control statements, and methods. The control statements are like the "iterative statements: for, while, do-while, for each, and selection statements: if, if-else, and switch. You should know "strings, arrays, regular expressions, objects, classes, packages, and constructors." And you should have complete knowledge about Object-Oriented Programming languages like Inheritance, Encapsulation, Abstraction, and Polymorphism. And you should know about Exception handling. If you know this much, you will be through.

In the next section of this article, we show a simple code for implementing Java for Selenium.

Demo for implementing the Java for Selenium:

Before we begin the coding part, we need to ensure that we are up with the correct environment setup. If you are not, you can learn it here.

Now you are up with the dependencies and the environment. Let's now begin with our project. Below is a small project where we make use of the GeckoDriver. And as per this test case, you execute the program, the GeckoDriver launches the Mozilla Firefox and move to http://wordpress.com and then sign in with the help of the credentials.

We are ready with the JARs and various other dependencies, and all that we need is the below code in one class file, and then we need to execute this code.

package selWebD;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class WebDCl
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "files/geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver d = new FirefoxDriver();
d.get("<a href="https://www.wordpress.com/">https://www.wordpress.com/</a>");
d.manage().window().maximize();
d.getTitle();
d.navigate().to("https://wordpress.com/log-in?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.com%2Fwp-admin%2F");

d.navigate().back();
d.navigate().refresh();
d.wait(6000);
// or use
// Thread.sleep(6000);

d.findElement(By.name("email")).sendKeys("[email protected]");
d.findElement(By.id("continue")).click();
d.findElement(By.name("pass")).sendKeys("yyyyyy");
d.findElement(By.id("login")).click();
d.quit();
}
}

And this completes our article. If you want to learn Java in detail, you can find on our site numerous courses related to it. And also, you read through various Java articles on our site blog section.

package selWebD;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

And now you know why Java is considered one of the most prominent programming languages for using the Selenium testing tools. However, remember that you should learn Java in detail explained above for making use of the Selenium. And we provide complete J2EE training through which you can become a Java developer or make use of it to become an able Selenium tester.

public class WebDCl
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "files/geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver d = new FirefoxDriver();
d.get("<a href="https://www.wordpress.com/">https://www.wordpress.com/</a>");
d.manage().window().maximize();
d.getTitle();
d.navigate().to(“https://wordpress.com/log-in?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.com%2Fwp-admin%2F”);

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d.navigate().back();
d.navigate().refresh();
d.wait(6000);
// or use
// Thread.sleep(6000);

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d.findElement(By.name("email")).sendKeys("[email protected]");
d.findElement(By.id("continue")).click();
d.findElement(By.name("pass")).sendKeys("yyyyyy");
d.findElement(By.id("login")).click();
d.quit();
}
}

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