WebDriverManager - Solution to the selenium binaries

What is WebDriverManager ?

Problem: 

In order to use some browsers (for example Chrome,Internet Explorer, Opera, Microsoft Edge, PhantomJS, or Marionette) you need to download a binary which allows WebDriver to handle the browser. In addition, the absolute path to this binary must be set as Java variables, as follows:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/absolute/path/to/binary/chromedriver");
System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.driver", "/absolute/path/to/binary/operadriver");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:/absolute/path/to/binary/IEDriverServer.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:/absolute/path/to/binary/MicrosoftWebDriver.exe");
System.setProperty("phantomjs.binary.path", "/absolute/path/to/binary/phantomjs");
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/absolute/path/to/binary/geckodriver");

Solution
This piece of software is a small library aimed to automate the Selenium Webdriver binaries management within a Java project in runtime.

What it does?

1. It checks the latest version of the WebDriver binary file
2. It downloads the binary WebDriver if it is not present in your system
3. It exports the required Java variable by Selenium WebDriver

Usage

In order to use WebDriverManager in a Maven project, first add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
    <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.6</version>
</dependency>

So far, WebDriverManager supports Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, PhantomJS, or Marionette as follows:

ChromeDriverManager.getInstance().setup();
InternetExplorerDriverManager.getInstance().setup();
OperaDriverManager.getInstance().setup();
EdgeDriverManager.getInstance().setup();
PhantomJsDriverManager.getInstance().setup();
MarionetteDriverManager.getInstance().setup();

WebDriverManager (Copyright © 2015-2016) is a personal project of Boni Garcia licensed under LGPL License. Comments, questions and suggestions are always very welcome!

Source: https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager