Test Automation

In order to start building my small Java automation projects I need to start right here.

First things first

If you're using MacOS, you should start by installing Homebrew. Homebrew aka "The missing package manager for MacOS" let's you install all the stuff that Apple didn't.

After this, and to make my project dependencies easier to manage I install Gradle.

Then, when you create you Java project with Gradle, you're able to manage your dependencies easy mode in your build.gradle file.

Just like this, I can have all the dependencies I need to my project available:

group 'testautomation'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

apply plugin: 'java'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java
    compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-java', version: '2.41.0'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.assertj/assertj-core
    testCompile group: 'org.assertj', name: 'assertj-core', version: '3.8.0'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.testng/testng
    testCompile group: 'org.testng', name: 'testng', version: '6.11'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-java
    compile group: 'info.cukes', name: 'cucumber-java', version: '1.2.5'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-core
    compile group: 'info.cukes', name: 'cucumber-core', version: '1.2.5'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-junit
    testCompile group: 'info.cukes', name: 'cucumber-junit', version: '1.2.5'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/gherkin
    provided group: 'info.cukes', name: 'gherkin', version: '2.12.2'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/gherkin
    compile group: 'io.cucumber', name: 'gherkin', version: '4.1.3'
}