Selenium with PHPUnit not loading page - selenium

Question

I am trying to make a test suit for a php project using phpunit and phpunit-selenium. In my composer file I have
"require-dev": {
"phpunit/phpunit": "^5.7",
"phpunit/phpunit-selenium": "^3.0"
}
The installed phpunit version is 5.7.4
I am using selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar as the selenium server. I start the server with
java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver="C:\Harlan\Selenium\geckodriver.exe" -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar
In my test class I have
require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../vendor/autoload.php';
class UserSubscriptionTest extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase {
public function setUp() {
$this->setHost('localhost');
$this->setPort(4444);
$this->setBrowserUrl('http://localhost/cwckids/web/user/login');
$this->setBrowser('firefox');
}
public function tearDown() {
$this->stop();
}
public function testFormSubmissionWithUsername()
{
$this->byName('login-form[login]')->value('admin');
$this->byName('login-form[password]')->value('mypassword');
$this->byId('login-form')->submit();
$content = $this->byTag('body')->text();
$this->assertEquals('Everything is Good!', $content, 'something wrong!!');
}
}
My problem is that the firefox browser opens up but doesn't load the page http://localhost/cwckids/web/user/login
The test fails immediately because it cannot find the elements. It give a message saying
Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"login-form[login]"}
I couldn't find a solution for the problem. Is it some version incompatibility? I tried with a few versions of Firefox and also selenium server. My Firefox version is 50.1.0. If it is a version incompatibility can someone suggest correct versions? Thanks
The complete trace
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest>phpunit tests/acceptance/UserSubscriptionTest.php
PHPUnit 5.7.4 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
E 1 / 1 (100%)
Time: 6.51 seconds, Memory: 9.25MB
There was 1 error:
1) UserSubscriptionTest::testFormSubmissionWithUsername
PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase_WebDriverException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"login-form[login]"}
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
Build info: version: '2.53.1', revision: 'a36b8b1', time: '2016-06-30 17:37:03'
System info: host: 'DESKTOP-I0LAEAM', ip: '192.168.8.101', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase\Driver.php:165
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase\CommandsHolder.php:108
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase\Element\Accessor.php:134
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase\Element\Accessor.php:175
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase\Element\Accessor.php:108
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase.php:394
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\tests\acceptance\UserSubscriptionTest.php:66
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\tests\acceptance\UserSubscriptionTest.php:66
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase.php:348
C:\xampp\htdocs\seleniumtest\vendor\phpunit\phpunit-selenium\PHPUnit\Extensions\Selenium2TestCase.php:314
ERRORS!
Tests: 1, Assertions: 0, Errors: 1.

Answer 1

There's a few things I'd suggest changing:
You are missing a call to $this->url(); from, what I can see within your test method:
public function testFormSubmissionWithUsername()
{
$this->url('your actual URL here'); // Add this line
$this->byName('login-form[login]')->value('admin');
$this->byName('login-form[password]')->value('mypassword');
$this->byId('login-form')->submit();
$content = $this->byTag('body')->text();
$this->assertEquals('Everything is Good!', $content, 'something wrong!!');
}
You are also not calling the parent::setUp() method from within your own setUp method:
protected function setUp()
{
parent::setUp();
// Set your browser, port setup etc here
}
There's also no need to explicitly call $this->stop(); from within tearDown, so remove that function completely.
Lastly, I'd tell selenium to take screenshots of failures, they save a lot of time:
/**
* Override this method from \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase so we can capture a screenshot.
*
* #return void
*/
public function onNotSuccessfulTest($exception)
{
$filedata = $this->currentScreenshot();
$file = YOUR_SCREENSHOT_DIR . '\testfails\\' . basename(get_class($this)) . '.png';
file_put_contents($file, $filedata);
parent::onNotSuccessfulTest($exception);
}