java - How to start FireFoxDriver using Selenium 3.4.0 using Maven?

Question

I am trying to use Selenium's latest version 3.4.0 in a maven project. I imported all Selenium's jars using below dependency:-

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
    <version>3.4.0</version>
</dependency>

The problem is I am unable to resolve any dependency in my project in Eclipse for below code inside main method:-

public class FirefoxTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
        options.setBinary("C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"); //This is the location where you have installed Firefox on your machine

        FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    }
}

What am I missing? Eclipse is unable to resolve FirefoxDriver type to any dependencies. Please help.

Answer 1

To work with Selenium 3.4.0 & Mozilla Firefox 53.x you need to download the latest geckodriver v0.16.1 from here. Save it in your machine & provide absolute path of the geckodriver in your code.

Ensure that you have updated the pom.xml with the required dependency as follows:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>3.4.0</version>
</dependency> 

It is recommended to use the WebDriver interface rather than to use the FirefoxDriver implementation.

Your code will look like:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();       
driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

Provide the following commands to flush out the previous dependencies, install the new dependencies & execute your test:

>mvn clean
>mvn install
>mvn test