I am using Selenium IDE 3.17.0 in chrome for recording scripts.
Is there any way to schedule the scripts through Selenium IDE like run the scripts/tests every 1 hr.
i can obviously export the scripts/tests to some programming languages and run a scheduler quartz to schedule it but was looking if there is anything native built in Selenium IDE.
Best Regards,
Saurav
Unfortunately, scheduling is no longer supported in the latest version. If you do want though, you can install an older version and enable scheduling. For that, you would need to download a legacy version, see here.
Here is another good walkthrough
Steps:
Selenium IDE > Options > Schedule tests to run periodically
My suggestion would be to not run it using IDE.
I'd suggest doing this:
Create a WebDriver (or RC if you wish) test using your preferred language.
If using linux, just use crontab to set up a 15 minute cronjob. If using windows, use task scheduler to run your test.
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I'm pretty newbie to selenium.
Im trying to configure selenium for a project in my university like the one configured with phppgadmin.
There is no .jar file, I dont need to run anything, dont even need to install libraries, etc... I dont know if this is a RC Server or Webdriver.
Also, I want to use the PHPUnit format, cause this way I can just export test cases from the Firefox Selenium IDE plugin. There is a way to do that?
There is a lot of information, webdrivers, etc in Internet but I believe the way phppgadmin do this is the best way.
If you're just looking for something quick and dirty Selenium 1 imported off of the IDE is probably for you. If in the future you plan on continuing your university project I would highly recommend learning about Selenium Webdriver (Selenium 2).
Just as a small aside: You can export your tests from the selenium IDE in any language you desire, PHP is just one of the many choices that include (Java (JUnit), Java (TestNG), Ruby, and Python). If you're interested in PHPUnit look here http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.1/en/selenium.html, this will give you the back drop on how to start coding your Selenium Tests.
If you're going to be using the selenium RC you want to go to http://seleniumhq.org/download/. Download Selenium server. You start the server with a java -jar command. So java -jar /path/to/sel/selenium-server-standalone-2.24.1.jar. This will start the RC server and when you're interested in running some tests execute the tests and then selenium server will take care of the rest
I want my selenium(java) test scripts to be scheduled for execution every night 11.00PM.
How can I do this in Eclipse .I am using TestNG to run my scripts.
I suggest you use a simple tool called jenkins to achieve what you are trying to do. It is an excellent solution to running scheduled tasks such as running selenium test scripts.
how to use Selenium to create an automatic tool to check mail status? I mean this toolkit could period duly open browser and check in my online mailbox to check if there are unread mails, if there has then change the status as "read" would be okay.
I currently was searching the selenium framework and could use it achieve some basic function, but have no idea of how to make it auto run and by fixed time interval. Can someone please guide me? any suggestion would be appreciated!
thanks!
The selenium standalone jar is executable so you could write a script to run selenium tests that you've created inside the Selenium IDE. It'd be something like this:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.8.0.jar -htmlSuite "<path to your .html test suite>"
Then, you could schedule this as a cron job to run periodically.
Here are two related questions that might help:
Run Selenium Test Automatically Every 5 minutes
How can I run a selenium test every 5 minutes?
I have Selenium IDE and i want to install Selenium Webdriver.
1) Can anyone tell me where can i download selenium webdriver. i don't see any link available in the documentation.
2)Can i use selenium webdriver with PHPUnit? I see some materials saying php is not supported in selenium 2 however there are some download links available for phpbindings for webdriver what is this exactly?
3)If i have Selenium webdriver do i still need selenium server to run test cases in different browsers?
I would appreciate your answers...
I completely agree with you. They have a ton of documentation, but they do a horrible job of explaining what you actually need. It took me about 2 days to put all the pieces together. You will need a few things...
If you are running tests with C#, download NUnit, C# client drivers. Create a class library project in Visual Studio and reference the dlls (assemblies) for NUnit (for appropriate dotnet version) and the C# client drivers. Compile your class library. It should create a dll inside of the bin\Debug directory. Then go into NUnit, create a project, and then open your assembly in that bin\Debug directory. That should get you started.
If you're developing using Java, download JUnit (not NUnit) and then download the Java Client Drivers, and use Eclipse instead of Visual Studio. You can launch JUnit right from Eclipse.
I've only tried NUnit and JUnit before. But I'm sure PHPUnit can also be launched from Eclipse (educated guess). There seems to be the most documentation for Java and Python.. from experience, but I've been doing everything in .NET and I haven't had anything I couldn't solve.
The Unit Testing software isn't required, but the code the format add-ins for Firefox Selenium IDE will build the code for NUnit (C#) or JUnit (Java), etc... so most use those tools.
If you want to get some boilerplate code, go into Selenium IDE and turn on experimental features under options. Then export your C# code (or Java code) from the format menu after you've recorded your commands. It won't all convert 100%, so be aware of that. Just google from there to get questions answered.
One thing to watch out for... clickAndWait commands won't convert to click and wait in the code. You will either need to do an implicit wait or a thread.sleep wait after certain commands before you'll be able to access the next element if you're waiting for an action to occur. You will also want to turn on native events so you can fire certain JavaScript events. Your fire events won't work if the driver doesn't have this turned on. The WebDriver driver.
If you have any other questions, let me know.
You can download Selenium server as well as client driver from the following:
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list
You can download "php-webdriver-bindings-0.9.0.zip" from the following source:
http://code.google.com/p/php-webdriver-bindings/downloads/detail?name=php-webdriver-bindings-0.9.0.zip
In C# context:
Now the better way of including packages in C# project is using nuGet. nuGet is packaging utility which when executed from its powershell command window, quickly downloads the dll files and links them to project. Below link details on how to use nUGet to install packages of selenium webdriver, selenium support and nUnit.
How to invoke/run different type of web driver browser using remote webdriver in C#
Is there a way to automate a selenium test to run every five minutes?
If you've got your tests packed as an executable the easiest way may be to run a CRON job or a Windows scheduled task.
That said, Hudson (or another continuous integration system) are almost certainly better long term strategies.
+1 to Hudson, but you might also want to check out my startup, BrowserMob. We provided free and commercial services that let you run Selenium scripts from multiple locations around the world and be alerted if there are problems.
You could do that with Hudson CI (see this article), or do the same manually (in a cron or Windows scheduler), by using the Selenium RC from command-line:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" http://example.com/ my_test_suite.html build/logs/seleniumhq.html
+1 Hudson, it has a very good support for Selenium Tests, there are some commercial tools as well like Cruise Control, Anthill Pro.
Otherwise you can use the Cron jobs or windows schedular.
If you are using RC, write an Ant script and then schedule it as mentioned in the other posts.