ChromeDriver
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Then depending on which language/framework you choose, you'll have to download the relevant library files, for example, if you're using JUnit you'll have to download Junit 4.11 jar file. Finally don't forget to download the drivers for Chrome and Safari (firefox driver comes standard with selenium). It provides capabilities for navigating to web pages, user input, JavaScript execution, and more. ChromeDriver is a standalone server that implements the W3C WebDriver standard. ChromeDriver is available for Chrome on Android and Chrome on Desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows and ChromeOS). Listed in order of easiest to hardest install, these are the best ways to install ChromeDriver on a Mac: The easiest way to install ChromeDriver is to use your package manager such as brew or npm to install the driver. In your terminal window with the Homebrew package manager: Install ChromeDriver with brew cask install chromedriver; Confirm it.
Selenium Chromedriver Path
Selenium is great for automated testing of web-apps and I’ve been using the Selenium IDE Firefox extension for a few months now.
For completeness of automated testing for web apps you need to do this in a number of different browsers which Selenium IDE doesn’t do. So you’ll need to download and install Selenium on your Mac.
June 2020 - this article is out of date - checkout my updated post on Automated Testing
Download Chromedriver to your Mac
Head over to the Chromedriver Project page and download the latest package. Vmware fusion 11 download for mac.
You then need to unzip the package and then copy the file to /usr/bin
Update Chromedriver Mac
This is a hidden system folder so the easy way to get to this file is
- Open another finder window
- From the Go menu select Go To Folder
- Type /usr/bin and press enter
Now drag n drop the Chromedriver file from your Download folder to this directory. You’ll be prompted for you Admin password. Adobe acrobat pro mac download.
Finally, I suggest you restart your computer as the next step didn’t work when I tried it.
Basic Test Case for Chromedriver and Selenium
If you’ve already followed my guide to setup Selenium via Python then this will look familiar
Open a terminal window and type the following, pressing enter at the end of each line
After a few seconds, if all is well a new instance of Chrome will open
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driver.get('http://www.damien.co')
To exit Python from your open Terminal, press ctrl+z
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