How To Create and Run First Selenium WebDriver Test Script

Last Updated : 26 Jul, 2025

We will begin by creating a new Maven project within Eclipse. Follow the steps below for creating the Selenium scripts:

Configure the pom.xml as below:

pom.xml

XML

<project xmlns="https://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.example</groupId>
  <artifactId>selenium-first-testcase</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <properties>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>
  
  		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
			<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
			<version>4.13.0</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
		    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
		    <version>2.0.0</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
		    <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
		    <version>2.0.0</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
			<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
			<version>7.4.0</version>
		</dependency>
		
	</dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.12.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
  
</project>

Create a class under the src/test/java with name LoginTest.java

LoginTest.java

Java

package test;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.time.Duration;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class LoginTest {
    private WebDriver driver;
    private WebDriverWait wait;

    @BeforeMethod
    public void setUp() {
        // Set up ChromeDriver manually (Make sure you provide the correct path to your chromedriver executable)
    	   System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\change the path of chromedriver\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
        wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10));
    }

    @Test
    public void testLogin() {
        // Navigate to the demo site
        driver.get("https://www.saucedemo.com/");

        // Enter username
        WebElement usernameField = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("user-name")));
        usernameField.sendKeys("standard_user");

        // Enter password
        WebElement passwordField = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("password")));
        passwordField.sendKeys("secret_sauce");

        // Click login button
        WebElement loginButton = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("login-button")));
        loginButton.click();

        // Verify login success
        WebElement inventoryContainer = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.className("inventory_list")));
        assertTrue(inventoryContainer.isDisplayed(), "Login failed: Inventory list not displayed");
    }

    @AfterMethod
    public void tearDown() {
        // Close the browser
        if (driver != null) {
            driver.quit();
        }
    }
}

After creating class Right-click the project, select Maven > Update Project and run the LoginTest.java as a TestNG Test.

Output:

Here we learned step-by-step process for creating your first Selenium WebDriver test script in Eclipse, using the provided pom.xml and LoginTest.java.