Getting started with Selenium WebDriver may be an issue. You must write some code and get the code running. I have created what I think is the smallest possible solution that could work. It consists of two files, a project definition and the actual test.

You will need to have Java and Maven installed. I will not tell you how this should be done, it depends on your environment and operating system.

Lets start with a project definition for Maven that will download the dependencies needed and execute a test. The simplest possible Maven pom that will work is this:

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>se.somath</groupId>
    <artifactId>web-driver-example</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.10</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.25.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

The two most important things here are the two dependencies. The first one will include JUnit so a test can be written. The second one will include WebDriver so a browser can be started and a web page can be interacted with.

A test that will connect to a web site and execute something may look like this:

src/test/java/AskTest.java

import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class AskTest {
    @Test
    public void shouldAskGoogleForWebDriver() {
        WebDriver browser = new FirefoxDriver();

        browser.get("http://bing.com/");

        WebElement inputField = browser.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q"));
        inputField.sendKeys("WebDriver");

        WebElement searchButton = browser.findElement(By.id("sb_form_go"));
        searchButton.click();

        browser.close();
    }
}

To execute this test, you need to execute Maven: 

mvn test

All dependencies you need will be downloaded. A Firefox should be launched and Bing should be searched for WebDriver.

The files has to live in this structure: 

example
|-- pom.xml
`-- src
    `-- test
        `-- java
            `-- AskTest.java

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