🚀 Integrating Selenium with Maven and Jenkins for CI/CD

If you're building automated browser tests with Selenium, you can use Maven to manage your test project and Jenkins to run tests automatically in your CI/CD pipeline.

🧱 Step 1: Set Up a Selenium Project with Maven

✅ 1. Create a Maven Project

You can create it from an IDE like IntelliJ or from the terminal:

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mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=selenium-tests -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

✅ 2. Add Selenium Dependencies to pom.xml

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<dependencies>

  <dependency>

    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

    <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

    <version>4.21.0</version>

  </dependency>

  <dependency>

    <groupId>junit</groupId>

    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

    <version>4.13.2</version>

    <scope>test</scope>

  </dependency>

</dependencies>

🧪 Step 2: Write a Simple Selenium Test

✅ Example LoginTest.java:

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import org.junit.After;

import org.junit.Before;

import org.junit.Test;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class LoginTest {

    WebDriver driver;

    @Before

    public void setUp() {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "path/to/chromedriver");

        driver = new ChromeDriver();

    }

    @Test

    public void testTitle() {

        driver.get("https://example.com");

        assert driver.getTitle().contains("Example");

    }

    @After

    public void tearDown() {

        driver.quit();

    }

}

⚙️ Step 3: Run Tests with Maven

You can run your tests locally with:

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mvn test

🧪 Step 4: Set Up Jenkins for CI/CD

✅ 1. Install Jenkins

You can download and install Jenkins from: https://jenkins.io/download

Or run it with Docker:

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docker run -p 8080:8080 jenkins/jenkins:lts

✅ 2. Install Required Plugins

Maven Integration

Git Plugin

JUnit Plugin (optional for test reporting)

🔁 Step 5: Create a Jenkins Job

Go to Jenkins Dashboard → New Item

Choose Freestyle Project

Give it a name (e.g., Selenium-Maven-Test)

Under Source Code Management, select Git

Add your Git repository URL

Under Build Triggers, select:

Poll SCM or GitHub webhook for automation

Under Build section:

Add a build step → Invoke top-level Maven targets

Goal: clean test

📊 Step 6: View Results

After running the job, Jenkins will:

Clone the project

Install dependencies using Maven

Run your Selenium tests

Show pass/fail results in the console output

✅ Optional: Add Test Reports to Jenkins

To visualize test results:

In your pom.xml, add the Surefire plugin:

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<build>

  <plugins>

    <plugin>

      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

      <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

      <version>3.2.5</version>

    </plugin>

  </plugins>

</build>

In Jenkins:

Add Post-build Action → Publish JUnit test result report

Set path as: **/target/surefire-reports/*.xml

📌 Summary

Tool Role

Selenium Automates browser tests

Maven Manages dependencies and builds

Jenkins Automates testing in CI/CD pipelines

🧠 Final Tips

Use Headless browsers (like Chrome headless) in CI to run without a GUI.

Add screenshot capture on test failure.

Integrate with email or Slack for alerting failed builds.

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