🚀 Day 16 of My Automation Journey – Installing Java, Eclipse & Setting Up Maven for Selenium

Welcome back to Day 16 of My Automation Journey! ☕💻 In the previous days, I focused on Java fundamentals like: 🔐 Encapsulation 📦 Packages 🧩 Access Modifiers 🔁 Method Overriding But before writing Selenium automation scripts, we need to prepare our development environment properly. So today’s goal was simple but important: ⚙️ Install and configure the tools required for Selenium Automation 🧰 Tools Required for Selenium Automation Before writing our first automation script, we need the following tools. Tool Purpose ☕ Java (JDK) Programming language used for Selenium 💻 Eclipse IDE Writing and managing automation code 📦 Maven Dependency management & project structure 🤖 Selenium Automation library for browser testing Setting these up correctly helps avoid environment issues later. ☕ Step 1 – Install Java (JDK) Selenium with Java requires the Java Development Kit (JDK). 📥 Download JDK Download the latest LTS version such as: JDK 17 JDK 21 After downloading, run the installer and complete the