Selenide: Quick Start

Selenide is a Selenium wrapper in Java for testing.  

This post describes how you can start using Selenide (using Gradle).

1. Setup Java Application

# keep pressing enters to choose default values
gradle init --type java-application
# confirm that test succeeds
gradle test

2. Add Selenide Dependency

open build.gradle and edit as:

dependencies {
  ...
  testImplementation 'com.codeborne:selenide:5.13.0'
}

3. Write Test (replace the existing test with selenide code)

src/test/java/selenide/AppTest.java

package selenide;
import static com.codeborne.selenide.Condition.text;
import static com.codeborne.selenide.Selenide.$;
import static com.codeborne.selenide.Selenide.open;
import org.junit.Test;

 

public class AppTest {
@Test
public void test() {
open("https://www.google.ca/");
$("input[type=text]").val("test").pressEnter();
$("body").shouldHave(text("test"));
}
}

4. Run Selenide

gradle test

This will open a browser to:

1. access google.ca
2. type "test" and press enter
3. check if the result includes "test"