Is there a way to record / generate a video file of the browser session for selenium webdriver with the following setup?
Environment / Test Setup:
e2e web tests (written in any language)
selenium standalone server with chrome
Since, there is no direct support from selenium, you may use third party tool like Monte Media Library. See the link:
How to perform screen recording with the help of selenium?
Hope, this will help you.
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I have been using selenium webdriver as my main method to do functional tests. So far its been working greate with our product.
I need to do some performance and/or load tests on the website, I was wondering if there is a tool that would incorporate my selenium tests or a tool which i can use with the recorded tests as the base.
Currently i am using selenium webdriver with C#
Any help is appreciated.
Given you have tests written in C# the most obvious way would be using Visual Studio Load Testing capabilities.
If you are looking for a free and open-source solution I would recommend going for Apache JMeter. JMeter has integration with Selenium via WebDriver Sampler plugin so you should be able to run your Selenium tests in multi-threaded manner. However you will need to convert your C# code into one of the WebDriver Sampler supported languages (default is JavaScript)
Remember that Selenium tests are very resource-intensive as real browsers consume a lot of CPU/RAM so the number of virtual users you will be able to mimic this way will be very limited. So recommended approach is creating main load on a HTTP protocol level and use one Selenium instance to check rendering speed while your application is under the load.
You can install WebDriver Sampler plugin using JMeter Plugins Manager.
Why do you need to run full browsers. HTTP layer tests are far simpler? You also should be looking at only a subset of business processes in performance which generate a preponderance of load.
I want to use Sikuli with PhantomJS.Because web application which we are testing have so many http authenticate pop Ups. We are automating those pop ups by using Sikuli when we were using Selenium. But now we want to use PhantomJS because user is not able to do any other work while selenium web driver is performing testing on web application. Basically we don't want to block User for doing any other activity. So we are trying to use PhantomJS.
But as we know that PhantomJS is headless browser and Sikuli is image based testing tool . So can we use Sikuli With PhantomJS? If yes, then how can We use it? I know how to use Sikuli with PhantomJS Webdriver?
Thanks In Advance
No, you can't. As you stated PhantomJS is headless browser and Sikuli is image based testing tool, so there's no GUI to interact with.
Get some Virtual Machines and run tests on them, so no user is blocked.
Which one of the following should be preferred for automating web project
Selenium IDE
Selenium WebDriver
I want to automate web application and this question is creating hell of confusion in my mind
First of all Selenium IDE is only for Firefox browser where as Selenium WebDriver will work in all kinds of browsers.
selenium IDE should be considered if you have very little knowledge on coding and your requirement is to create play-back recorded scripts. also if u have small size web app and with low maintenance scope then go for selenium IDE.
If your web app is dynamic with lots of test cases and you are sure that maintenance will be required then go for selenium web driver. For that you will require good programming language knowledge.
Let me know if this helps.
I have successfully tested applications in FireFox using Selenium WebDriver, but one of our applications runs in a custom browser made using QTWebKit. Is it possible to use WebDriver to automate testing in a custom browser like this?
There is a webdriver for QtWebkit here: https://github.com/cisco-open-source/qtwebdriver
It also can automate qtwidget and QML aplications.
You should be able to use it to automate you custom browser, provided you preserved the QtWebkit APIs.
If QTWebKit has released a WebDriver executable for the browser, then yes.
Otherwise - no.
I'm new in using Selenium.
Selenium IDE is a user-friendly firefox plugin. I have no problem in using it. However, I found that the documentation for other Selenium tools such as Selenium RC and Selenium Core is quite confusing for beginners. It seems that the author assume that the readers already have deep knowledge in using these tools.
For example, when I try to figure out how to setup Selenium RC to test a webserver, the only diagram i can find from the Selenium website is this:
http://www.sparksupport.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/selenium-rc.png
From this diagram, i can't even see which one is the webserver under test and where should i install the Selenium components.
At first I thought this diagram is a bit weird and i should be able to get a better diagram from other websites. I was surprised to find that almost all Selenium RC setup diagram on the internet are similar to this diagram (clones). No one has ever attempted to create a different diagram or give more description for Selenium RC setup.
Appreciate if anyone can give me guidance on how to setup Selenium RC. The things that i want to know are:
Can i use Selenium RC to test any website on the Internet?
How to setup Selenium RC?
Is my current setup correct? My current setup is like this: In a LAN network which has access to the Internet, I have 3 servers. Server-1 comes with IE8, Server-2 comes with Firefox 3.6. Server-3 will be used as the Selenium RC server. So, Selenium RC in server-3 will remotely control server-1 and server-2 to start up IE and FF. Server-1 and 2 will use server-3 as the HTTP proxy to connect to any webserver on the Internet. If I want to test a website such as yahoo.com, I can write Selenium script and let it run in Server-3 to control the IE and FF in server-1 and 2.
This info is related to Selenium 1.
Selenium system consists of 3 parts:
selenium core - that is javascript library that will be used to simulate user actions
selenium RC - this is selenium-server.jar - mediation JETTY server that will receive requests from selenium client. Selenium Server RC (Remote Control) should be on the same machine where the Browser placed
Selenium client - java/ruby/... library that you will be use with your tests to communicate with Selenium RC.
It will be helpful if you provide language that you use for your tests and other technical details.
About your questions:
can
type in command line -> java selenium-server.jar
or you can use class SeleniumServer in your program
please use text formatting when ask questions.
server-1 will has IE8 and SeleiumServer
server-2 will has FF and yet one SeleniumServer
server-3 will has you client tests
FYI - you can run all together on one PC
The below diagram is of a web application test system that I've implemented on numerous occassions. This does not show you specifically details on installing Selenium RC, but it does show you, at a high level, all of the necessary system components and how they interface.
We hope you can use it to get ideas on how to implement your own systems using open source solutions like Selenium, MySQL and Perl.
Our team understands that not all web sites are created equal, and, in order for any automation initiative to be successful a thorough analysis must be performed of not only the web application, but the business as well. Since our client's QA team, while technically savvy, were not programmers we decided to implement a page object design pattern where all of the "magical selenium commands" were abstracted in a class and exposed to the test developers as methods they would call from their test scripts.
The resulting implementation, as seen in the diagram below, is currently deployed and keeping management and interested parties up to date on the status of key functional areas of the web site.
System Diagram - Click to View
In the coming weeks, we are going to be covering each implementation step in more detail. We look forward to any feedback!
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