How to configure Selenium WebDriver with Spring Boot for UI testing?

Finally this is what I tried and it worked.

pom.xml

 <dependencies>        <dependency>            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>        </dependency>        <dependency>            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>            <scope>test</scope>        </dependency>        <dependency>            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>            <scope>test</scope>        </dependency>        <dependency>            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>            <artifactId>selenium-api</artifactId>            <scope>test</scope>        </dependency>        <dependency>            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>            <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>            <scope>test</scope>        </dependency>      <!--  <dependency>            <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>            <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>            <version>2.2.3</version>            <scope>test</scope>        </dependency>-->    </dependencies>

src/test/resources (manual download of exe required)

chromedriver.exe 

BaseSeleniumTests.java

public abstract class BaseSeleniumTests {    private static final String CHROMEDRIVER_EXE = "chromedriver.exe";    protected WebDriver driver;    @Before    public void setUp() {        String driverFile = findFile();        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();        ChromeDriverService service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()                .usingDriverExecutable(new File(driverFile))                .build();        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();        options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model, MUST BE THE VERY FIRST OPTION        options.addArguments("--headless");        options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);        options.addArguments("start-maximized"); // open Browser in maximized mode        options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars        options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions        options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only        options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems        options.merge(capabilities);        this.driver = new ChromeDriver(service, options);    }    private String findFile() {        ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();        URL url = classLoader.getResource(CHROMEDRIVER_EXE);        return url.getFile();    }    @After    public void tearDown() {        if (driver != null) {            driver.quit();        }    }

GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests.java

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)@SpringBootTestpublic class GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests extends BaseSeleniumTests {    @Test    public void getSearchPage() {        this.driver.get("https://www.google.com");        WebElement element = this.driver.findElement(By.name("q"));        assertNotNull(element);    }}

Please see my answer here Use Webdriver Manager on how to invoke browser without the need to download the binary files (You will need to add a dependecy to your maven) then the rest is simple , so your code will looks like this:

    @Test    public void getSearchPage() {    WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();    driver.webDriver.get("https://www.google.com");    WebElement element = driver.webDriver.findElement(By.name("q"));    assertNotNull(element);}

You will need to

• add a Maven dependency to the selenium-ie-driver
• Download the Internet Explorer Webdriver
• Set the system property webdriver.ie.driver to the path of the executable

Selenium starts this as a background process and communicates via network connection. The webdriver takes control of the Internet Explorer.