HOW TO RUN SELENIUM WEBDRIVER SCRIPT IN GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER USING CAPABILITIES?

We can also run the Selenium Webdriver programs in Google Chrome web browser using capabilities to perform automation testing.
To run the Selenium Webdriver programs in Google Chrome web browser we need to download Chrome Driver.

Here is the very basic program to run Selenium Webdriver programs in Google Chrome web browser using capabilities.

Java Source code:

package com.helloselenium.selenium.test;
 
import java.io.File;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class OpenHelloSeleniumBlogInGoogleChrome{

 public static void main(String[] args) { 

  WebDriver driver = null;

  File chromeDriver = new File("path of the chromedriver (.exe file)");
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriver.getAbsolutePath() );     
  DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
  capabilities.setCapability(capability arg1, capability arg2);
  driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

  driver.get("http://helloselenium.blogspot.com");
  
  driver.quit();
 }

}

Detailed explanation for the above program is as follows:

Following code is the required package for Java File.

import java.io.File;

Following code is the required packages for Selenium Webdriver.

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

Following code is the required packages for Chrome driver and Selenium remote capabilities.

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

Following code is to initialize the webdriver.

WebDriver driver = null;

Following code is to locate the chrome driver executable file.

File chromeDriver = new File("path of the chromedriver (.exe file)");

Following code is to set the chrome driver with webdriver property.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriver.getAbsolutePath() ); 

Following code is to define Google Chrome capability.

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

Following code is to set Google Chrome capability.

capabilities.setCapability(capability arg1, capability arg2);

Following code is to initialize the chrome driver.

driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

Following code is to open the hello selenium blog in chrome browser.

driver.get("http://helloselenium.blogspot.com");

You can also use the following code is to open the hello selenium blog in browser.

driver.navigate().to("http://helloselenium.blogspot.com");

Following code is to quit the driver instance.

driver.quit();

You can also use the following code is to close the driver instance.

driver.close();