The purpose of this post is to help beginners (new users to Selenium RC) help setting up Selenium RC with TestNG using Eclipse.

Before setup

I am assuming that you have done the following steps:

• Download and install Eclipse from www.eclipse.org

• Download the latest TestNG from www.testng.org

• Download Selenium RC from www.openqa.org

• Install TestNG plugin for eclipse from http://testng.org/doc/download.html or follow TestNG plugin for eclipse from my article

Setup the test environment

Please follow the following step by step instructions to setup the test environment:

1. Launch Eclipse, you can locate any directory as your default workspace. In this example, my default workspace is :
   
   
   
   Click OK, Eclipse will be launched.
   
   
2. Click File > New
   
   
   
   
3. Set the project name as Google.
   
   
   
   Click Next.
   
   
4. On the Source tab leave the default > Click on Libraries > Click on Add External Jars > Add the jar files for TestNG and Selenium RC Java client as shown below:
   
   
   
   Click Finish, now you will have a Java project created in Eclipse that is correctly set to use Selenium Client and TestNG jar files.
   
   
5. Now Right Click on the src > New > Class
   
   
   
   Name the class file as GoogleTest and Click Finish.
   
   
6. Now create a testng test within GoogleTest class as follows:
   
   
   
   
7. The next step is to run the Selenium Server as
   
   java -jar selenium-server-x.xx.x.jar (see Running Selenium Server)
   
   
8. Now Right Click on the test and run this as TestNG test.
   
   
   
   
9. The test will be successful.
   
   
   
   

For more details please go through my post Getting started with Selenium RC (selenium 1) with TestNG