Using Ant for Selenium WebDriver test execution

Apache Ant is a popular build management tool available for Java developers. It is similar to Apache Maven, but does not support project management and dependency management features like Maven. It's a pure build tool.

Ant is another choice to run Selenium WebDriver tests from the command line or through continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.

In this recipe, we will add Ant support to the SeleniumCookbook project created in the Configuring Eclipse and Maven for Selenium WebDriver test development recipe.

Getting ready

You can download and install WinAnt on Windows. WinAnt comes with an installer that can configure Ant through the installer. The WinAnt installer is available at http://code.google.com/p/winant/.

You can also download and configure Ant from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi for other OS platforms. This recipe uses WinAnt on the Windows OS.

How to do it...

Let's set up the SeleniumCookbook project for Ant with the...