Example Maven pom.xml for Java based Selenium WebDriver project for Firefox

Question

I would like to automate Firefox using Java through a Selenium WebDriver project.

As I never used Selenium nor Maven before I'm not familiar with how to set up a suitable Maven pom.xml file to create a project, which then can be imported into Eclipse.

On http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp#introducing-webdriver I found the following example for the opera browser:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>MySel20Proj</groupId>
    <artifactId>MySel20Proj</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.28.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.opera</groupId>
            <artifactId>operadriver</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.opera</groupId>
                <artifactId>operadriver</artifactId>
                <version>1.1</version>
                <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
                        <artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                </exclusions>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
</project>

Would you be so kind and show me how to adapt this pom.xml to apply for the Firefox browser, say Firefox 17?

Answer 1

With selenium-java dependency you get all java bindings for all browsers. So, you do not need to change anything in your pom from what you already have. The only thing that would change is your driver initialization code, which is driver = new FirefoxDriver() instead of OperaDriver.