I am using BrowserStack for cross platform/cross browser testing of web application, and I need to test it using different system configurations. Can you, kindly advise, if I am able to view/change System Prefenerces in BrowserStack?
Currently, BrowserStack does not allows changing the System Preferences of the remote machine.
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I have been using sikulix for a while writing scripts for tests and general automation, as far as i have seen it is not possible to because silkulix needs keyboard input and a screen. Does anyone know if it is possible to a way to mock thses to enable to host it using amazon services.
General advice for both Windows and Linux: You need to enable autologon and set appropriate resolution
I try to find a service which provides a functionality that allow me to create manual tests autmation for web-based applications in simple way with visual constructor without any coding, so it could be
simple in use without any coding on selenium or another framework tool
has option to set testing in schedule mode via the web interface to perform regression testing
has ID's validation and shows possible inconsistencies
The main point is reproduce manual tester's work without using automation scripts and do it in simple way in order to a beginner will be able to work with it.
So could anyone describe his own experience ?
There are two main options I would consider
to find a service which provides a functionality that allow me to create manual tests autmation for web-based applications in simple way
First one is BrowserStack and you can record your Selenium tests using the Selenium IDE extension for FireFox. It can export the recorded steps into your favorite language (C#, Python, ect). You can execute these recorded scripts on BrowserStack by pointing the hub URL to Browserstack's Selenium hub ‘http://hub.browserstack.com/wd/hub’ along with your username and Automate key. Your 'username' and 'automate key' can be found at Account --> Automate1, after you have logged in to your account.
I would suggest, you refer to the comprehensive documentation on BrowserStack Automate. It takes you step-by-step through the product and all its features. You can select the language you are using and get started with BrowserStack Automate. If you have any more questions, feel free to email at support#browserstack.com. They will be happy to help you out.
Second option is SauceLabs and the Selenium Builder. This is the docs that will guide you. Further more you have CI integrations for Jenkins and Bamboo.
You can use Selenium IDE to create your automated tests. With this Firefox plugin, you can record a test in your browser.
Once you're done recording, you can export the test and upload it to TestingBot. There you can specify the browsers you want to run the test on. TestingBot will then run your test across all the browsers you specified.
We have are planning to design a system where we are planning to invoke the Selenium test that is present in a remote machine with url for testing. The selenium program should open 3 browsers for example IE, FF and Chrome and open the page and take a screenshot of it. Later These screenshots should be sent from this machine to the java application.
Is it possible to achieve this functionality ? If so could you please guide me on how to do this ?
Yes, you need to start a Selenium Grid/Node server on the remote machine that is configured to run all 3 browser types. That configuration isn't easy but it involves launching the grid from a .json config file. Then, your local program needs to just run the 3 tests either in 3 simultaneous threads, or one at a time using typical Selenium code.
Each test needs to define a Selenium Augmenter to get screenshots. There are lots of examples on Google.
Is Selenium Grid ( Server or Client ) a paid tool?
I have surfed for this information and I didn't get much information on this.
Selenium grid is free, and you can find out more information on how to setup, and the project in general here:
http://selenium-grid.seleniumhq.org/get_started.html
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/Grid2
From their license page
All Selenium projects are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
So no, it is not a paid-for tool.
It is free and open source.
http://code.google.com/selenium
Please look at the documentation then come back with a particular problem.
I wanted to execute on the same Browser Type on the same Machine. This is not supported by Selenium Grid. Hence i took a different route and made the below changes.
Make multiple folder copy with the execution jar along with the essentials like testng.xml, config files, IE driver.....
Write a wrapper and trigger these execution jar one by one. It should work upto 5 IE11 browser on 4GB RAM machine.
This way we are able to run multiple tests on the same browser on the same machine cutting the usage of 3rd party tools like Sauce Labs, Browserstack at some extend...
I'm running Hudson for my automated builds and love it.
I'd now like to create automated Web browser tests using either WaTiN (preferred) or Selenium.
As my Hudson runs as a Windows service (under Tomcat), how can I configure this to run? Will I be forced to log in as a user on the Hudson box so my automated browser tests will find a browser? Or is there some other sorcery with an interactive session that I can conjure up?
If possible I'd like the Hudson box itself to run the tests.
After some research I've found that WaTin won't work so well as I'd need to configure Hudson to run in an interactive Java session.
Selenium Grid, however, is perfect - there's a Hudson plug-in that can control it, too.
So that's what we'll use.
I'd now like to create automated Web
browser tests ... my Hudson runs as a
Windows service ... Will I be forced
to log in as a user on the Hudson box
so my automated browser tests will
find a browser? Or is there some other
sorcery with an interactive session
that I can conjure up? If possible I'd
like the Hudson box itself to run the
tests.
A Windows service can indeed run a browser, even when logged in as the LocalSystem account. We have that exact setup, with Hudson installed as a Windows service, although deploying it to Tomcat and running that as a service should work equally well. We use Sahi for our automated testing, which runs our test suite in both IE and Firefox.
You didn't say what problem you had with Watin, but in case it's relevant, Sahi needs to set the browser's HTTP proxy to a special host and port. This works no problems with Firefox because Sahi configures its proxy via a profile specified on the Firefox command line. IE is a little tricker, because its proxy settings are in the Windows registry, and when running as the LocalSystem account, these come from a special place in the registry (not HKCU as for a logged-in user). See this SF answer for the details. If that was the problem you were having, you may yet be able to achieve your goal of running everything on the Hudson box.
Have you checked here? This shows the Selenium Grid plug-in to Hudson.