Configuration of Selenium 2 (WebDriver), using IE and upload file with WebDriver

You need to add all jar after downloading selenium-java 2.25 0r any version. First add all jar then all all lib folder jar.

• selenium-java-2.25.0.jar
• selenium-java-2.25.0-srcs.jar and then all lib jar (Don't forget to add all lib folder jar)

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 ]

Instead of the old and outdated webdriver-common package, you probably need the newest selenium-java from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list.

If you'll ever also need running Selenium RC locally, or Remote WebDriver ot Selenium Grid, you'll need the selenium-server package there (if you don't yet know what these are, just take selenium-java).

In both cases, for running InternetExplorerDriver, you'll also need the IEDriverServer from the page mentioned above. It's up to you whether to use the 32 or 64 bit version.

You can find an example of setting it up here in the documentation. If you dig around a bit, you'll find many more useful information in that documentation.

For example, for Internet explorer, you'll do:

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\IEDriverServer.exe");
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

// your testing code

driver.quit();

Your method of uploading a file is correct.

And as of now (Selenium v2.29.0), you can't download files via any WebDriver. If you really want to do so, you'll have to find another way.

Without instantiate driver for your browser, it won't open a browser window to do the upload/download operation. If you're using IE you've to write driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();