How to run selenium tests in Firefox browser

We have seen how to run selenium tests on chrome and Safari browsers, along with these browsers Firefox browser is one of the popular browsers in the market with large user base.

So we need to validate to make sure the functionalities are working fine for firefox browser as well.

To run selenium tests on firefox browser, we need geckodriver [provided by Mozilla]

https://youtu.be/SlC1pd8EBNY

Download latest geckodriver

You can download the latest version of geckodriver from below link [download, extract and keep the file in your local drive]

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Note – makes ure you upgrade your firefox browser to latest

Upgrade firefox browser to latest

Firefox browser > help > about

on Mac – Firefox browser > Firefox menu > about

System.setproperty for firefox browser

System.setProperty(“webdriver.gecko.driver”, “/Users/userName/sel/geckodriver”);

Note – geckodriver is extracted under /Users/userName/sel/geckodriver

For windows, the path would be something C:\\Username\\sel\\geckodriver.exe

Code implementation

We need to create driver object of Selenium’s FirefoxDriver class

driver = new FirefoxDriver();

package browsers;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class FirefoxTest {

    public static void main(String []args) throws InterruptedException {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/Users/userName/sel/geckodriver");

        WebDriver driver;
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(); //launch browser

        driver.get("https://qavbox.github.io/demo/signup/"); //loads url
        Thread.sleep(3000);
        driver.findElement(By.id("username")).sendKeys("JTC INDIA");
        Thread.sleep(2000);
        driver.quit();
    }
}

You can run the test, selenium will execute scripts on firefox browser.

Hope this helps!