Contents

• How To Upgrade From Selenium 3 To Selenium 4
  • Using Selenium with Maven:
• How To Install Fresh Instance of Selenium 4
  • Step 1: How To Install Java
  • Step 2: How To Install Eclipse
  • Step 3: How To Install Selenium 4
    • Install Selenium using Maven (build tool):
      • Install and Setup Maven
      • Download Selenium using Maven
  • Install Selenium manually:

We will install Selenium 4 and go through all the new features of Selenium 4 in the next post.

How To Upgrade From Selenium 3 To Selenium 4

Most of us are already using Selenium 3 (Selenium WebDriver) and would like to migrate from Selenium 3 to Selenium 4. Follow the below steps to upgrade from Selenium 3 to Selenium 4.

Using Selenium with Maven:

If you are using Selenium with Maven, you can easily upgrade to Selenium 4 by simply changing the version of Selenium to Selenium 4.

<?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>selenium4</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium4</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>8</source>
                    <target>8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0-alpha-6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>2.6</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

</project>

How To Install Fresh Instance of Selenium 4

Follow the below steps to complete the installation.

Step 1: How To Install JAVA

Step 2: How To Install Eclipse

Step 3: How To Install Selenium 4

Step 1: How To Install Java

Check the below video to see “How To Install Java”

Go to the below-mentioned link and download the latest version of JAVA or click here

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Accept the license agreement and choose the right ‘JDK’ file to download based on your system requirement.

Once downloaded. Go ahead and verify the Java version. To do this, open the command prompt and type “java -version” and hit enter

Step 2: How To Install Eclipse

Go to the following link to download eclipse

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Download the appropriate file based on your system requirement

Download ‘Eclipse IDE for Java Developers’

Extract the eclipse file which you have downloaded

Right-click on ‘eclipse.exe’ and run it as ‘Run as administrator’

Choose a specified path to create ‘workspace’ by using the ‘Browse’ button.

You could create Java Projects, Packages, and Classes in Java Eclipse.

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