Prerequisites to Start Learning Selenium Webdriver


You will need the following to start using Selenium WebDriver or in other words you can say prerequisites required to setup Selenium Webdriver??


  • Java Development Kit (JDK) ( To download it, click here)
  • Eclipse IDE - (To download it, click here)
  • Jar Files (Java Client Driver) - (To download it, click here)


  • HTMLUnit and Firefox are the only browsers that you can automate without the use of a Driver Server.
  • In case, you want to work with Chrome and Internet Explorer Browser, you'll need to download Chrome and IE drivers. To download IE and Chrome drivers, click here

To know how to install external jar files in Eclipse, read the following post:



To know about how to set up Classpath after downloading JDK, please read another post: