Introduction to Maven and Maven Setup

We'll learn about Maven in this blog post, including why it's important for Selenium automation and its benefits.

Maven:
Maven is a dependency management and build management tool.

Why do we need Maven?

Various capabilities are being worked on by a team of people working on an automation project. Consider a scenario where a developer is working on a specific feature and uses a defined version of Selenium WebDriver along with additional dependencies or Jars. Therefore, all the Jars he is importing must be of a specified version and be the same for the entire team.

Consider the following scenario:
Developer A is using the most recent version of a dependency or webdriver, whereas Developer B is using an earlier version of the same dependency or webdriver. Developer B will therefore need to download the updated version and modify the code as necessary.

In these circumstances, Maven is used. Automatic dependency management benefits the entire team.

Advantages of Maven:

• Creating projects is made simple.
• Improved project performance.
• Because it makes the process and dependencies simple, users don't need to worry about working on various projects in various environments.
• It makes it simple to add dependencies for JAR files.
• effective error handling

Maven Setup:

• Open eclipse and click on window → Select Preferences
• You will notice Maven add-on.
• Maven is built-in in Eclipse.

But Maven act as build management tool as well. so, we'll need to download and set up environment variables for it. 

1. Visit Maven – Download Apache Maven
2. Scroll down to Files section
   
   
   
   
3. Download binary archive zip file.
4. Unzip downloaded file at any location you want.
5. Click Start → Search environment variables. Below window should open
   

   

   
   
6. Click on Environment variables.
   

   

   
   
7. Under System variables click on New. Enter variable name and Variable Path (path of maven folder) and click on ok as follows:
   

   

   
   
8. Under system variables click on Path 
   

   Click on new and enter path of bin folder as follows:

Click on Ok.

Open Command Prompt and write command mvn --version to check whether maven is installed or not.