Upload Selenium Script to GitHub

Details: Last Updated: 02 July 2017

Git Hub is a Collaboration platform. It is built on top of git. It allows you to keep both local and remote copies of your project. A project which you can publish it among your team members as they can use it and update it from there itself.

Advantages of Using Git Hub For Selenium.

When multiple people work on the same project they can update project details and inform other team members simultaneously.
Jenkins can help us to regularly build the project from the remote repository this helps us to keep track of failed builds.

In this tutorial, you will learn

Git Binaries Installation
Jenkins Git Plugin Install
Setting Up our Eclipse with GitHub Plugin
Building a repository on Git
Testing

Before we start selenium and git hub integration, we need to install the following components.

Jenkins Installation.
Maven Installation.
Tomcat Installation.

You can find this installation steps in the following links:

1) Maven and Jenkins installation Guide (/maven-jenkins-with-selenium-complete-tutorial.html)

2) Tomcat Installation Guide (/apache.html)

Git Binaries Installation

Now let us start by installing "Git Binaries".

Step 1) Launch the Browser and navigate to URL- https://git-scm.com/

Step 2) Download the latest stable release.

Step 3) Click on downloads for windows once the file is downloaded we can begin with our installation.

Step 4) Go to the download location or icon and run the installer.

Step 5) Click through welcome and General Public license.

Step 6) Click on "next" button in git setup wizard

Step 7) Read the GNU General Public License and click on next

Another window will pop up,

Step 8) In this step,

Select the Directory where you want to install "Git Binaries" and
Click on next button

Step 9) Select the component which you want to install and click on next

Step 10) If you want to create a start menu folder for Git, leave the setting default and click on next.

Step 11) In this step,

Select Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt to run Git from the command line and
Click on next.

Leave the default setting and click on next to install.

Step 12) In this step,

Select Use Open SSH It will help us to execute the command from the command line, and it will set the environmental path.
Click on next button.

Step 13) In this step,

Select "Checkout windows-style, commit Unix-style line ending".(how the git hub should treat line endings in text files).
Click on next button.

Step 14) In this step,

Select Use MinTTY is the default terminal of MSys2 for Git Bash
Click on next button

Once git is installed successfully, you can access the git.

Open Command prompt and type "git" and hit "Enter" If you see below screen means it is installed successfully

Jenkins Git Plugin Install

Now let's start with Jenkins Git Plugin Installation.

Step 1) Launch the Browser and navigate to your Jenkins.

Step 2) Click on Manage Jenkins.

Step 3) Click on Manage Plugins, it will open another window

Step 4) Click on Available TAB

Step 5) In this step,

Select GitHub plugin then
Click on Download now and install after restart button.

Now it will install the following plugins.

Once the Installation is finished. Restart your Tomcat server by calling the "shutdown.bat" file

After Restarting the tomcat and Jenkins we can see plugins are installed in the "Installed" TAB.

Setting Up our Eclipse with GitHub Plugin

Now let's install GitHub Plugin for Eclipse.

URI for EGit Plugin location http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates

Step 1) Launch Eclipse and then

Click on help button then
Click on install new software

Step 2) The below screen will open once we click on the install new software. Now click on add

Step 3) In this step,

Type the name "EGIT" and
Enter the location http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates then
Click on ok.

Step 4) Then click on select all and next

Step 5) Click on next and click accept the license agreement then finish the installation.

Then restart the eclipse.

Building a repository on Git

Step 1) Navigate to Git Hub URI: https://github.com/ sign up for git hub

Step 2) Once you have been successfully signed up then click on create new repository

Step 3) In this step,

Enter the name of the repository and
click on create repository

Testing Example Of Using Selenium with Git Hub.

Step 1) Once we are done with the new repository, Launch Eclipse

Click on file
Then click on new button and then
Click on other

Step 2) In this step,

Select Maven Project and browse the location.
Click on next

Step 3) In this step,

Select project name and location then
Click on next

Step 4) Click on next

Step 5) In this step,

Enter Group Id and
Artifact Id and
Click on Finish button.

As soon as you click on finish button, a project will be created.

Step 6)

Now let's create a sample script

Let's push the code/local repository to Git Hub.

Step 7) In this step,

Open eclipse and then navigate to the project
Right-click on the project and Select "team" then
Select share project

Step 8) Once we click on the "Share Project" in above screen, we will get another window

In this step,

Select the local repository and
Click on finish.

Once we click on Finish, we can see the change in the project structure that we have created a local repository.

Now it's time to push our code to Git Hub Repository

Step 9) In this step,

Right-click on the project and team then
Click on commit

Step 10) In this step,

Enter a commit message and
Select the files which we want to send to Git Hub repository
Click on commit and push

Once you are done with it, you could see the icons in the project is being changed it says that we have successfully pushed and committed our code to Git Hub