I am trying to set up selenium webdriver to work together with Browserstack with Java for automated testing. I installed the Selenium for java and I copied and pasted the code from browserstack's site to set up an example automation test.
I ran javac -classpath selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar JavaSample.java from my terminal (JavaSample.java is the file with the selenium configuration code with the sample test) and I get the following error:
JavaSample.java:1: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist import org.openqa.selenium.By; ^ JavaSample.java:2: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist import org.openqa.selenium.Platform; ^ JavaSample.java:3: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; ^ JavaSample.java:4: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; ^ JavaSample.java:5: error: package org.openqa.selenium.remote does not exist import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities; ^ JavaSample.java:6: error: package org.openqa.selenium.remote does not exist import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver; ^ JavaSample.java:18: error: cannot find symbol DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities(); ^ symbol: class DesiredCapabilities location: class JavaSample JavaSample.java:18: error: cannot find symbol DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities(); ^ symbol: class DesiredCapabilities location: class JavaSample JavaSample.java:25: error: cannot find symbol WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps); ^ symbol: class WebDriver location: class JavaSample JavaSample.java:25: error: cannot find symbol WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps); ^ symbol: class RemoteWebDriver location: class JavaSample JavaSample.java:27: error: cannot find symbol WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q")); ^ symbol: class WebElement location: class JavaSample JavaSample.java:27: error: cannot find symbol WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q")); ^ symbol: variable By location: class JavaSample I'm not sure how to go about this being as I just followed the instructions on Browserstack and I have very little background in Java.
1 Answer
You will have to download the "Selenium Client & WebDriver Language Bindings" for Java from Selenium Downloads. You can download directly by clicking the link here.
Include all the JAR files that are present in the downloaded ZIP file. To include multiple JARs in Java classpath, you can check the link here.
The selenium-server-standalone JAR is required if you are running your tests locally. Executing the command java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar will start a Selenium server, which required to launch Selenium tests locally. You need not use it, if you are running tests on BrowserStack.
Would also recommend using an IDE for Java. The most commonly recommended ones are IntelliJ Idea, Eclipse, and Netbeans.
