How to integrate testcafejs in jenkins with different browsers - testing

Currently, I am doing automation UI tests with testcafejs for React project.
I would like to run these tests in continuous integration environments such as Jenkins. I already add browserStack plugin to run them locally with different browsers and operating system.
However, I would like to integrate them into Jenkins but not always consuming browserStack quota for daily checks. Any suggestions for how to run them within different browsers in Jenkins?

TestCafe has an extensive command line interface that allows it to fit well in any popular continuous integration system.
Here are instructions on how you can integrate TestCafe with Jenkins. The up-to-date KB article can be found in this documentation topic for the TestCafe Open Source version:
Integrating TestCafe with Jenkins CI System
If you are using the legacy TestCafe version (version 15.1), you can use the following KB article:
How to integrate TestCafe with Jenkins
You may also wish to check the TestCafe plugin for Jenkins that attaches screenshots and videos to the Jenkins test results page.
Step 1 - Fetching Test Code From a Repository
Here, we will use tests published in a separate repository on GitHub - ci-integration-demo. If you use a different version control system, search for a plugin that integrates it with Jenkins.
Open your project and choose Configure from the right pane.
Scroll down to the Source Code Management section and select Git, then specify the Repository URL.
Step 2 - Adding a Command to Install TestCafe
Go to the Build section, find a step that builds you application and add a new step right after it. To do this, click Add build step and select a step type that runs a shell command.
In the Command box, type the following.
npm install testcafe testcafe-reporter-xunit
This command installs the main testcafe module and a plugin that saves test run reports in the xUnit format.
Step 3 - Adding a Command to Run TestCafe
Add another step that executes a shell command after the previous one. This step will run TestCafe.
Type the following command.
node_modules/.bin/testcafe chrome tests/**/* -r xunit:res.xml
This runs TestCafe tests from the tests directory in Google Chrome. Test results are saved to the res.xml file in the xUnit format.
Step 4 - Publishing Test Run Reports
Go to the Post-build Actions section and click Add post-build action. In the drop-down list, select Publish JUnit test result report.
In the Test report XMLs field, specify the test report file: res.xml.
Step 5 - Run the Test
Click Save and you will be navigated to the Project page.
Hit Build Now to build the project immediately.
Step 6 - View Test Results
In the Build History section of the Project page, click a build and select Test Results from the drop-down menu.
Jenkins will display a test run report where you can see general information about testing results. You can click individual tests for details.

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Automated Testing for testers with no coding required

I'm trying to improve the testing process where I work, but without adjusting the structure.
What we have: VSTS, Selenium IDE, Testers who write test cases, but not code.
What I'd like to do is manage a way to marry our TFS continuous integration with the Selenium tests we write. These are NOT the code-driven selenium tests, but rather the IDE version where users click through, and set assertions using the IDE (All are just UI tests). I know we can export those tests plans as a .SIDE file, but what I can't figure out, is how to have our TFS server execute those as part of a deployment or build pipeline.
Ideally, developers/devops would setup projects in TFS from the onset with whatever solution makes sense to execute these Selenium .SIDE files, but afterwards, the testers would manage adding/modifying those tests cases elsewhere.
The real goal here is to not have testers writing code, or checking in code. Only writing these UI Selenium tests, but having TFS execute those as part of CI.
Researching this on the internet drives me basically always to something that requires testers to write code.
I don't think it can automate testing without code, at lease, you need a test project containing your automated tests.
Generally, in Azure DevOps, we use Visual Studio Test task to run tests. This task supports using the following tests:
Test assembly: Use this option to specify one or more test assemblies that contain your tests. You can optionally specify a
filter criteria to select only specific tests.
Test plan: Use this option to run tests from your test plan that have an automated test method associated with it. To learn more about
how to associate tests with a test case work item, see Associate
automated tests with test cases.
Test run: Use this option when you are setting up an environment to run tests from test plans. This option should not be used when
running tests in a continuous integration/continuous deployment
(CI/CD) pipeline.
This was a question that I had as well, and I think I found an imperfect but better solution.
I wasn't able to get my Selenium IDE tests running with Jenkins, but I was able to get them to run with TeamCity, another CI.
I created a build step like the following :
Runner type: Command Line
Working Directory: where the selenium IDE .side file is located
Run: Custom Script
With the build script content that I usually use to run my Selenium IDE Tests, such as selenium-side-runner sidefile.side
I also added the following so I could output the results in Junitor another form: --output-directory=results --output-format=junit
You can also add the following so the tests are run headlessly, this only works in Chrome : -c "goog:chromeOptions.args=[--headless,--nogpu] browserName=chrome"
Finally, I also use --filter to run one test suite at a time, but that is optional too.
I then used another build step to export the results to our test manger, xray, but I think that is beyond the scope of this question.
The problem with this solution is that it runs directly from a users individual machine still, but this can be work around.

Jenkins - Trigger Selenium test after deployment

I'm new to Jenkins, so please go easy!
I have a web application which we are developing, and we've started automating our release using Jenkins.
I also have a standalone Selenium WebDriver script which will perform a Smoke test on our web app. We usually run this manually each time there's a new deployment.
I heard Jenkins can automatically trigger Selenium tests. So what I did was to create a batch file, which will in turn call the Selenium script. I added a Build Step which will call this batch file.
What's happening now is Jenkins first Builds the WAR file, executes the batch (for selenium) and then deploys it to the target Tomcat.
But I was wondering if I could change the order to Build WAR --> Deploy to Tomcat --> Call the Batch file that executes Selenium Test. I want to do this as Jenkins Tests before deploying, which means my Selenium test still runs on the old build. This makes little sense, as I would rather run the Selenium test on the new build.
In short, is there a way I can execute the Batch file as part of a Post Build Step rather than a Build Step?
Thank you Würgspaß !!
I solved my problem by creating a separate Selenium Job which gets triggered automatically if my Build is successful. This way, I can create any number of downstream jobs to be triggered for a successful build.

Selenium - Jenkins - CI

I'm trying to integrate my selenium automation project with Jenkins using ANT build tool.
I've successfully configured a job and I'm able to BUILD too, but my scripts didn't launch the application and perform the test steps as expected. But still I could see the console output as 'BUILD SUCCESS'...!
When I tried to execute the ANT build through command prompt, it got executed appropriately by launching the application and performing required test steps. So expected the same to happen in Jenkins job as well, but it's not happening so.
Please help me in fixing this issue....!
Note: I have followed the steps given in the post below for integrating Jenkins & Selenium-
http://www.ontestautomation.com/running-selenium-webdriver-tests-in-jenkins-using-ant/
Make sure of two things
Configure Ant: Jenkins > Manage Jenkins > Configure System > Ant installations
Invoke Ant: Jenkins > Job > configure > Build > invoke ant targets
Followed the steps below to overcome the issue I logged/faced:
1) Upgraded the Chrome to latest version
2) Ensured 'Allow service to interact with deskop' is checked - refer to the post below for more information:
Jenkins windows slave service does not interact with desktop
3) Initiated the Jenkins through command prompt (Jenkins should be stopped in services.msc when we do this) in traditional way....

Selenium test schedule via Jenkins

I would like to schedule task which is login to a partner site and prolongs a license. I found that it can do Selenium. After I faced issue with scheduler and found article here http://www.learnseleniumtesting.com/ about Jenkins configuration. Now I cannot understand how to run test from selenium in Jenkins. Is there need good knowledge in python or java ? Also I found that RC standalone selenium server is deprecated and avoided to be using now. Is there need deep diving into using these tools for executing 5-7 action on site ?
I feel that Selenium is great for doing any tasks that you may find yourself doing over and over again. For "prolonging a license" on a partner site I think this is the perfect tool for you. We setup Jenkins to run certain Selenium tests after each commit and other Selenium tests every night. If you need me to go into more detail about how the setup looks I would be glad to show you more details.
Adding Jenkins build information to help show how we did it.
1) The first step is to get a build in Jenkins that will compile any code you have and deploy a war if needed with something similar to the following: mvn -P release clean test package. We set ours to build #midnight shown in the picture below.
2) After this build finishes it triggers the next job to run this command shown in the image below: mvn -Dtest -P smokeTest clean verify

Test Automation: TeamCity with Selenium and SOAPUI and Calabash

We are building apps for iOS and Android. Currently we are experimenting with TeamCity for CI.
Currently we have various tools to help us in the Test automation.
1. Selenium: For testing the web interface
2. SOAPUI: For testing the web services
3. Calabash-iOS: For testing iOS app
This is the scenario that we have done successfully with TeamCity:
1. Developer commits code to BitBucket
2. TeamCity runs calabash
3. If calabash pass, TeamCity will build and give the artifacts
This is the scenario that I am trying to do so that I can achieve an end-to-end automated testing:
When developer commits his code to our Bitbucket git repository,
TeamCity will trigger Calabash to run and check for the UI and the output of the details. On end,
TeamCity will trigger Selenium to add data in the Back Office web. On end,
TeamCity will trigger SOAP UI to check newly added data. On end,
TeamCity will trigger Calabash to check the newly added data
Has anyone tried this before or can give me an idea on how I can approach this?
You can setup different builds for each step since you can trigger builds via simple GET requests triggered by a script. TeamCity Accessing Server by HTTP
We run a similar setup. Basically we have one build kick off the Selenium/SoapUI scripts. That build doesn't wait for the job to finish, it just kicks it off. Then in our Selenium/SoapUI tests as the last step we hit the URL for the next build that picks up reports etc.