Have a wait / timeout when running selenium test suite in command prompt - selenium

When running my test suite in Selenium IDE, the tests pass as the IDE allows for enough time (30000) to find the elements.
When running my test suite using command line, the tests fail with the Timeout error below.
I have tried adding a timeout to the command by adding the words "--timeout [60000]" to the command line,
example:
selenium-side-runner --timeout [60000] -c "browserName=chrome" "Desktop/SIDE with CMD/CmdWithoutInit2.side"
I have also added "Pause" and various "waits" to the actual tests in Selenium IDE, all of which work in IDE but are null when running in Command.
TimeoutError: Waiting for element to be located By(css selector,
#select2-ProjectID-v1-container > .select2-selection__placeholder)
Wait timed out after 15051ms
I need a way to run the Selenium IDE (.side) test suite using command line. To do this I need CMD to give enough time for the test to find each element, like the IDE does. I am hoping there is a short few words I can add to the command itself.

The answer is to add --timeout 6000 to the command line.
Example, in command prompt, run test by entering
selenium-side-runner --timeout 60000 -c "browserName=chrome" "Desktop/Name.side"
Timeout syntax does not include square bracers, can remove --debug if needed, doesn't provide useful info on actual running test only on running side-runner itself.

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Selenium works in chrome normally but does not work with chrome headless

I have a simple test created from selenium IDE and I have saved it as a .side file
In my cmd i execute the command: selenium-side-runner C:\path\to\file\prueba2.side and the test is successful.
But when I run the test with chrome headless with the command: selenium-side-runner -c "goog:chromeOptions.args=[headless]" C:\path\to\file\prueba2.side it throws the following error:
TimeoutError: Waiting for element to be located By (css selector, div:
nth-child (2)> .rc .LC20lb) Wait timed out after 15163ms
I tried to solve the problem by adding a pause of 5 seconds before the line that generated the problem is executed but it did not work, throws the same problem.
In the following link I found the solution: https://medium.com/#griggheo/running-selenium-webdriver-tests-using-firefox-headless-mode-on-ubuntu-d32500bb6af2
When we use the browser headless mode we must change the instruction find_element_by_id for find_element_by_xpath because the browser in headless mode sometimes does not find the element by id but by XPath
You could try adding the --nogpu argument to your chromeOptions. I've had to use that before to get headless working properly.
selenium-side-runner -c "goog:chromeOptions.args=[--headless,--nogpu]" C:\path\to\file\prueba2.side
I know I am a little late, but ...
For me it works if I specify the browserName like this:
selenium-side-runner -c "broswserName=chrome goog:chromeOptions.args=[-headless]" C:\path\to\file\prueba2.side
Normally you do not have to say that you use chrome, because it is the default, but the moment I started using the "-c" flag, I had to specify the name.

How to run CI selenium side runner tests on Jenkins

I have a .side file generated by the Selenium IDE, which I need to run on CI using Jenkins.
I am running it as a build step with the following shell command:
selenium-side-runner /path/to/file.ide
The problem arises due to the fact that no matter if the selenium test fails, Jenkins always shows is as success.
In this thread it's suggested to upload the file as generic, but still, the commands to execute it are missing
How to upload a generic file into a Jenkins job?
I've found a possible solution to it on this posts, but I would appreciate having a cleaner way to solve this instead of parsing the results checking for errors.
How to mark a build unstable in Jenkins when running shell scripts
Is there a plugin able to run selenium .side files on Jenkins and this one showing the success/failures of the test?
You can generate a Junit test report file and then use the Jenkins Junit plugin after your tests execution.
selenium-side-runner --output-directory=results --output-format=junit
# Outputs results in `junit` frormat in `./results/projectName.xml'
Check the official documentation for more details.

Selenium IDE 2.9.1 - Can I run tests from a command line?

I would like to add a command line start for Selenium IDE test scripts to our build process so some of the tests are run immediately after the latest code is built for our products.
I have been looking and everything I find seems to relate to older versions. I can't find anything that looks up to date.
Can I run tests that I have recorded in Selenium IDE 2.9.1 from the command line - and by extension, a batch file to run multiple tests.
Is there documentation that I did not find? Can someone direct me to it?
Thanks.
You didnt specify an operating system but i think you mean windows, and yes, you can run selenium IDE test suites from powershell or CMD on windows.
You will need Java installed on your machine, and also the Selenium Server.jar file which should have come with your installation of Selenium, if not you can download from the Selenium Site.
Then, create a test suite in IDE and save it somewhere on your machine. (you can only run test suites, not testcases - i wont explain the difference between the two here)
Then in powershell or CMD you run this command, you will need to change it depending on your installation directories.
C:\Java\JDK1.8.0_66-X64\bin\java -jar C:\Selenium\Selenium-Server\selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite *firefox "baseurl" "C:\temp\testsuitename" "C:\TEMP\logs" -timeout 0060 -trustAllSSLCertificates
I will break this down for you -
C:\JDK1.8.0_66-X64\bin\java -jar - this is your Java installation directory (mine is Java JDK 1.8)
C:\Selenium\Selenium-Server\selenium-server.jar - This is the location of your Selenium .jar file.
-htmlSuite *firefox These are .jar file options to tell the jar file you are running it from a command line and to use firefox
"baseurl" In here, you should enter your base url which would normally be at the top of the IDE gui. eg, www.google.com
"C:\temp\testsuitename" The full path where you have saved your test suite
"C:\TEMP\logs" Running from command line produces a html log, advise where you want this placed
-timeout 0060 -trustAllSSLCertificates There are additional options, of which there are many. In this case the total time the command will run before it times out is 60 seconds, and it will ignore all those untrusted certificate errors that firefox often gets (where you need to keep adding exceptions etc).
Hope i could help!

How to run tests in FitNesse/Slim headless?

we are considering to use FitNesse/Slim.
But is there a way to start all written Tests without browsing the webpage and starting each manually ?
It would be sufficient if there is a one-start-all kind of button somewhere to click.
So either starting all tests from command line (with a report of course) or with on button from the webpage.
Is this doable ?
Thanks in advance
There is a very easy way to do that. You can run FitNesse tests from the command line. You do this by using the following command line:
java -jar lib/fitnesse.jar -c "FrontPage?suite&format=text"
This will run all tests under the FrontPage and show the results as they happen in a command line friendly format. If you change FrontPage to FrontPage.MainSuite, it will run only the tests under that page.
If you have tests that are in different states. Maybe some of them are started but are not done yet. You can add a Suite Tag to the tests that must run, then you can filter the tests that are run. that would look like the following:
java -jar lib/fitnesse.jar -c "FrontPage?suite&suiteFilter=MustBeGreen&format=text"
This is also possible to do using an ANT java task.
Assuming you have a current version of fitnesse and have it running on port 8080, the following link will take you to a page with more details: http://localhost:8080/FitNesse.UserGuide.ControllingFitnesseFromTheCommandLine
Dan has it correct; but the User Guide is also posted online at:
http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.ControllingFitNesseFromTheCommandLine

Way to invoke the Selenium IDE From a unix command line

Is there a way to invoke the Selenium IDE From the Linux command line. I would really like to have a command that when run would cause the Selenium IDE to run the current test. (This way I can hook it into gvim's save hook and never take my hands off the keyboard)
EDIT:
I know how to get PHP unit or the like to run selenium. That works great for running tests, the problem is that right now what I am trying to do is use the selenium IDE as a macro. IE to load my app and navigate me to the part I am working on. That does not work well from phpunit because it reloads the page as soon as the test ends.
You cannot run IDE directly from the command line, however you can use Selenium RC to run scripts recorded in Selenese (i.e. recorded by Selenium IDE) without converting them to a different language.
Run Selenese Directly Within the
Server Using -htmlSuite
You can run Selenese html files
directly within the Selenium Server by
passing the html file to the server’s
command line. For instance:
java -jar selenium-server.jar
-htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://www.google.com"
"c:\absolute\path\to\my\HTMLSuite.html"
"c:\absolute\path\to\my\results.html"
This will automatically launch your
HTML suite, run all the tests and save
a nice HTML report with the results.
Note
When using this option, the server
will start the tests and wait for a
specified number of seconds for the
test to complete; if the test doesn’t
complete within that amount of time,
the command will exit with a non-zero
exit code and no results file will be
generated.
This command line is very long so be
careful when you type it. Note this
requires you to pass in an HTML
Selenese suite, not a single test.
Also be aware the -htmlSuite option is
incompatible with -interactive You
cannot run both at the same time.
The above is taken from http://seleniumhq.org/docs/05_selenium_rc.html
What I found you can do is use the unix command line tool "xdotool" to generate the click event on the button, which will run the script. Exactly what I wanted to do. This is the command line I run. (Its in a shell script)
xdotool search --name "Selenium IDE" mousemove --window %1 153 65 click 1
For the Selenium IDE I don't know a solution. Selenium IDE is the user frontend for the Selenium Core.
But to run a set of working test scripts, you can use Selenium Remote Control (RC). This is an API for the Selenium Core. It is available for Java, Ruby, Python, .Net/C#, Perl, PHP.
You can record a macro with Selenium IDE. Then you can export the macro to each of the supported programming languages. I used it successfully for Java:
Exported the script to Java
Wrapped the Java code with a JUnit test case
Used a simple main method in a Java class to parse some command line arguments and to call the JUnit runner
Started the Selenium Server from the command line
Called the Java class from the command line
It should work in an analogous way for other programming languages. Compile Java or C# to an executable or directly call the Python/Ruby/Perl script.
The wrapping as a JUnit test case is optional. The advantage is that you can execute the Selenium macro also with any other JUnit runner, e.g. in Eclipse or with the JUnit Ant task.