Prerequisites for starting with selenium webdriver?

Whole automation fraternity is crazy about the emerging demand of selenium.Today we are sharing our 1st post on selenium.We are not doing something out-of-box, however we tend to start a basic step towardshelping people learn Selenium.Hope our this initiative can guide and mentor our budding automation coders.

Requirement:- What is required to execute and get acquaintance with Selenium.

Solution:- Java,Eclipse,FireBug&Selenium

Java :-
JDK(Java development Kit) is the first essential component to start with selenium.

Download Link :- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

After downloading, run the exe file to complete the installation

Steps:-

Click on Download Link

Select the appropriate options

 Note:- Installation is successful, we can verify that by typing "java" in command prompt

Java is installed 

Eclipse:-
IDE(integrated development environment) for doing coding.

Download Link:-http://eclipse.org/downloads/

After downloading , extract the file and run the "eclipse.exe" to launch it.

Steps:-

Select version of Eclipse

Download Eclipse

In the workspace, select the location where our code will be saved.

Select Path to save the code

Firebug:- 

It is a web development tool that facilitates the debugging, editing, and monitoring of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, XHR, and JavaScript.We need this to work with webdriver, to get the location of elements like xpath or ID.

Download Link:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/

Steps:-

Download Firebug

Note:- Try to download the latest available version.

After Installing, we can launch the plugin by navigating to "Web Developer" >> "Firebug".

Selenium WebDriver:-

Download link:-http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

After downloading and extracting the files,we will get a folder which should contain two jar files related to selenium, a lib folder which also contains jar files inside it. Beside this, there is a change log file as well.

Downloading Selenium

Selenium Jar files