I am creating selenium test to test a web app. I also want to be able to use these test cases as a way for non technical users to automate the first few steps of the process. ~Is this possible?
If you are using testng, generate command to run XML from the command line and then copy the same command to .bat or .cmd file. By a click any user can run those tests/suite.
Of course you can, Selenium automates browsers, it is not a 'test library' you can use it in any program. Just write java program where you use selenium.
You can also write tests (in JUnit or TestNG or any other test runner) and run tests programmatically.
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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.
I have a situation where we would like to run our Selenium test suite, but
at certain points in the process we would like to execute a shell command
on our machine.
Does Selenium have the capability of executing a shell command and to
receive a response and then to act on those results? Is this possible? If
so, how?
thanks in advance.
You tagged it TestNG meaning you write your Selenium tests in Java. The Selenium framework itself does not have a method to run shell scripts. But Java does, you can just execute commands in your tests and later use the output or input from/for Selenium actions.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec()
Read more:
In the Java documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#exec(java.lang.String[])
How to Run a Shell Command in Java: https://www.baeldung.com/run-shell-command-in-java
Using the output of the Shell command: java runtime.getruntime() getting output from executing a command line program
Selenium is just a library for interacting with web browsers. To strictly answer your question.. the answer is "No, it can not". However, you can easily integrate execution of shell scripts from your test code or framework. How you do that will depend on the language you are using.
Yes you can, but you have to use certain specific libraries along with it in addition to the language you choose eg. If you choose java, you either have to provide repo url via maven or gradle but if you just use python instead since it's highly interpreted, it can pull dynamic content that do pose limitation in Java Selenium, TestNG, PDFBox, POI lib etc. You can deploy a js library of your choice and include that function inside your python code to be invoked via the commands or action that you set your application to.
In short, use Python for purely less troubling dynamic meta extractions, string manipulation, piping output to any other file. Hope that helps.
I'm trying to export my test automation created in Selenium IDE, but I can't find the option to export. I have a few test scenarios where the tests are the same but I need to make a copy of an existing test and swap some IDs for it to work.
I can only save it as a .side file and not as individual Python scripts for Selenium. I'd like to export an existing script and re import it into Selenium IDE as a copy (where I can make some changes, while keeping the majority of the commands the same).
My Selenium IDE looks like this:
How can I export my test scripts (to Python) or how can I make a copy of an existing test script inside Selenium IDE (ex. make a copy of UAT FCC-A Application, such that it makes another Test with all the same commands)?
I'm on Chrome.
You have Export option on Selenium IDE
But only Java JUnit at the moment.
I hope that helps.
The newest Katalon Recorder (Selenium IDE for Chrome) has covered the feature of exporting test script to Java，C#,Python 2,Ruby and so on.
Followed is the link to view these features.
Katalon Automation Recorder Quickstart
Using Webdriver, I have automated web based Application in eclipse and using QTP, I have automated Power Builder application(like desktop App).
Now both become depended module for me, from PB data's are flowing to web base application.
so, how can I achieve this. please someone provide me how to proceed with situation and give me some strategy to proceed
We have exactly the same situation where powerbuilder application is integrating with the web application, below is the solution we have followed
We are using jenkins for executions, but this can be done without jenkins also.
We have one jenkins job which executes a UFT test first and then executes the selenium test if UFT test is successfull.
At the end of test execution UFT test will generate a file with the information required by selenium test and then jenkins will trigger selenium test, selenium test will read this file to gather any required information.
Results are interpreted in the following way
If UFT test fails then jenkins will not trigger the selenium test. If the whole jenkins job is executed successfully then integration is working, if the UFT part failed then Powerbuilder is having issue and if selenium part failed then web application is having issue.
I have some Selenium IDE scripts for automating tasks (deploying to an internal server via it's web interface), and I want to have bookmarks to launch them.
Don't want go to Tools -> Selenium IDE -> search test -> launch test, just want to click a bookmark and let the script run.
How can I achieve this? Am I missing a point?
Don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm currently using Firefox (if I have to change browser for this, it wouldn't be a problem).
Thanks
Not sure whether you be able to run tests pressing on a bookmark as browser plugins are usually run with a key combo. And bookmark is URL. Well the main issue in your question how to associate bookmark
with browser addon launching.
Well, I've investigated a lil bit workaround. Speaking about getting Selenium HTML Test Suites Running Automatically (i mean an alternative to bookmarks) some solutions are possible:
solution 1:
Patch the Selenium server code to support HTML suites.
Build a script to execute your HTML test suites.
Build a script to read the suites’ output reports and consolidate
the information for inclusion into your CC.NET report.
Setup details you can get here
Solution 2:
Selenium IDE plugin for Firefox to create tests
Java to run Selenium Server
Selenium Server to run test suites
Nant to generate reports for CruiseControl.NET
CruiseControl.Net as a continuous integration engine
Setup details here
Hope this be useful for you.
Bookmarks are nothing else than URLs, which makes it impossible to "bookmark" a functionality of a plugin, such as the Selenium IDE.
However, there might be other plugins out there that do what you want. I haven't had a closer look at it, but one candidate could be the Favorites (Selenium IDE) Firefox Add-on.