Sample webdriver scripts to Navigate url

Two methods:

Method 1:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class goTo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("https://www.google.com");

}

}

Method 2:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class goTo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.navigate().to("https://www.google.com");

}

}

Differences between navigate().to() and get()

driver.get("http://www.google.com");

Webdriver will wait until the page has fully loaded before returning the control to test or script. If there many ajax calls in the current page which webdriver is loading then webdriver may not know when it has loaded completely. If you need to make sure such pages are fully loaded then you can use waits.

driver.navigate().to("URL")

Earlier, we covered navigating to a page using the get command (driver.get("http://www.example.com")) As you have seen, webdriver has a number of smaller, task-focused interfaces, and navigation is a useful task. Because loading a page is such a fundamental requirement, the method to do this lives on the main Webdriver interface, but it’s simply a synonym to:

driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");