Selenium Beginner Tutorial 13 - How to use HtmlUnit Driver

Note- HtmlUnitDriver is not available in selenium 3.x version.
Pre-requisites - Selenium jars should be added to the project. This is covered in the earlier session on this series. Selenium Beginner 5 - How to write first Selenium script (java) - 5 Easy Steps

Today we will learn :
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1. What is HtmlUnit Driver

2. How to run test with HtmlUnit Driver

HtmlUnitDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();

3. How to emulate other browsers

HtmlUnitDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver ( BrowserVersion.CHROME );

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Helpful Tips:
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How to confirm and validate that your test ran on some specific browser

WebClient webClient = (WebClient) get(driver, "webClient");

private static Object get(Object object, String field) throws Exception {
}

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Interview Section:
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Q. What is HtmlUnit Driver technically in Selenium library.

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[yogs]

Thanks a lot bro. Please keep sharing more videos. Your approach is very practical

[bilalrahaoui]

Don't forget to add htmlunit driver jar to build path :)

[arpitaverma]

Hi, Thanks for your videos. Could you please prepare videos for TestNg? And are your these videos sufficient to learn selenium. Thank you

[smanap]

Raghav, Will you post some information on JUnit, TestNG and maven integration for CI etc?.. Thank you for all the videos in selenium.. I am yet to check Jmeter videos, which I will be doing now. Thanks again

[bilalrahaoui]

i didn't get what HtmlUnitDriver driver = new should do ?
because I see the same result with this HtmlUnitDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();

[neha]

Sir Can you please raise li'il bit volume in videos, , , that'll be really helpful to us.Thankyou.

[m.pavankumarreddy]

Hi raghav do we need to add htmlunitdriver dependency in pom.xml to use that class ?

[dimplepal]

Hi Raghav, When I am trying to implement this code into my selenium project. I am not getting an option to import HtmlUnitDriver class option. Seems like some config is missing. Please advise. thanks!

[A.B.]

Exception in thread "main" WebClient
at Source)

What to do with it here, ?? It prints out Title of that Selenium website but for all those Boolean checks for BrowserVersion() it shows this exception and nothing else!! any comments??

[ChandraShekar-nuyq]

Hi Raghav, I am getting below error.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:
HtmlUnitDriver cannot be resolved to a type
Can you please help me ?

[vishsah]

Hi Raghav,
i am getting this error
Exception in thread "main"

[sangamsood]

Hi i tried the same way as shown in video, though added jar also (htmlunit-driver-2.42.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar, httpclient-osgi-4.3.jar.zip) but getting this error

Exception in thread "pool-1-thread-1" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
at
at

[archanadeshmukh]

I am unable to import the HtmlUnitDriver driver so can't run it. That option is not available for me

[knownothing]

I have added all the jar files in the project on eclipse but still can't get to import Please advise.

[engineernaveedrehman]

Hello sir where the link for you selenium course from scratch of udemy?

Could@, you share it the selenium udemy course link over here.

Thanks

[rajeshdevan]

Hi Raghav, I am getting this error Exception in thread "main"
at
Caused by: I update html unit driver dependency latest version but still it is throwing exception. Please check this and reply me. Thank you.

[knownothing]

I am trying to do HtmlUnitDriver but when I write HtmlUnitDriver under main class then it shows red underline and when I put my cursor there then it is not showing anything about import For bring this import do I need to install anything or what shall I do to do that? Please help.

[rajeshdevan]

Raghav please say main thing you missed out to say this HtmlUnitDriver is not available in selenium 3.x version.

[ilavarasansriraman]

Is we can take screenshot after using headless browser testing...

[nisheethbaxi]

What would be the syntax for BrowserVersion.Firefox in Python? Please help