the storeEval command works across test cases within a suite when using the selenium IDE -- (firefox addon)
but the same suite does not work when using the selenium RC (jar)
The variable is not stored
Example
test1
click
storeEval "asd" foo
test2
type element_id ${foo}
"asd" appears in selenium IDE. However, "foo" appears" in selenium RC
Any suggestions?
Thank you
PS: Please note this is an htmlsuite running in both selenium IDE & selenium RC
I found the solutionby editing one of the jar files:
http://mumblblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/make-store-command-work-with-selenium-rc-to-pass-values-between-test-cases/
about editing the file inside jar:
How can I edit a .jar file?
It helped for me.
Related
I have recorded some simple selenium tests by Selenium IDE. Now I want to run those tests in Jenkins.
Which plugin to Jenkins do I need to do that? And how to run the tests step by step? Help is appreciated.
you can use recorded selenium IDE script and selenium-server.jar file to run it from Jenkins
Here is steps:
Go to SeleniumHQ page and download Selenium Server file
Eg: selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar
Repair html test suite Use Selenium IDE to record then save as
html test case and test suite then put them in a same folder
eg: TestCase.html, TestSuite.html
In jenkins
Plugin Seleniumhq
Configure Selenium runner file
Manage Jenkins > Configure System > Selenium Remote Control: htmlSuite Runner = path to file u have download in step 1
Configure Job to run
In Build field click " Add build step" then select "seleniumhq htmlSuite Run"
browser: *firefox or *iexploer ....
startURL: http://www.google.com or ...
suiteFile: Input absolutely path to TestSuite.html file saved in step 2
resultFile: Input absolutely path to a file that results will be saved
Hope this help!
I did the same but the following error occurred:
Unable to find the HTML runner. This is normally because you have not downloaded
or made available the 'selenium-leg-rc' jar on the CLASSPATH. Your test will
not be run.
Download the Selenium HTML Runner from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ and
use that in place of the selenium-server-standalone.jar for the simplest way of
running your HTML suite.
I'm trying to run an HTML testSuite with Selenium RC. The browser starts, the first test runs, and it stops. It doesn't continue to the second test case. I named both the test cases with .html extension. I am using Firefox.
If I run them manually, individually from the selenium RC test runner window they run ok. What am I missing, this seems pretty simple but yet I'm not able to get this working.
I am using Selenium RC 1.0.3
java -jar selenium-server.jar
-firefoxProfileTemplate"C:\Users\sicky\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\zvt0jj7c.default"
-htmlsuite "*firefox" "https://4.17.8.9/" "C:\Users\sicky\Documents\selenium scripts\suite.html"
"C:\Users\sicky\Documents\selenium scripts\results.html"
What am I missing?
ok I figured this out. What I was doing was , I was converting the existing scripts into HTML. Apparently it doesnt work that way. It looks like I have to name them with html extension when I make those test cases itself, then the whole suite will run –
Actually I had the same behaviour and my test scripts were in fact created in Selenium IDE and had the proper .html extension.
However! The test suite itself didn't have the .html extension. I just added it and it started working properly.
Currently I am working on selenium IDE, now I need to switch to selenium RC. I have downloaded selenium server.But I really don't know how to proceed further. Even I am not able to start server from command prompt. I have used C:\Selenium RC\selenium-server\jave -jar selenium-server.jar, but it struck in between and not proceeding further..
I am looking for language java or PHP.
Let me know how should I move further for successful execution of scripts by using selenium RC
First of all: save a test suite in Selenium IDE (File > Save Test Suite). You should generate test suite - it will contain information about test cases (which, of course, should also be saved (File > Save Test Case)).
Then you are ready for testing with Selenium RC.
Try it with below command:
java -jar path/to/selenium-server-standalone.jar -htmlsuite "*firefox" "http://google.com" "path/to/your/testsuite1" "path/to/result.html"
result.html - this file will be generated during/after execution.
Be sure that name of browser, URL and paths to test suite and result file are in the quotation marks.
I am using Selenium with PHPUnit. I have got class called, lets say, somethingTest (test classes must have 'Test' at the end of their names) and extended PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase. This class contains several test cases as methods (e.g. function testSomeMethod1() - 'test' at the beginning).
And I run it by command:
phpunit somethingTest.php
As to the second thing:
Unknown command: gotoIf
You should load gotoif extension by adding to the execution command something like: -userExtensions path/to/extension-file
This indicates a JavaScript file that will be loaded into Selenium.
If you choose Java to write code, a better approach would be using an IDE like Eclipse. Once you link the JARs and import them in your Java classes you can write your code quickly and efficiently. On top of that, Ecplise has lot of plugins for testing software like Junit, TestNG's to help you create better test suites. Not to mention a Java IDE is always helpful in debugging test code. Here is a tutorial on how to setup Eclipse with Selenium: http://selftechy.com/2011/05/31/setting-up-selenium-with-eclipse
Hope it helps.
I'm trying to run an HTML testSuite with Selenium RC. The browser starts, the first test runs, and it stops. It doesn't continue to the second test case. I named both the test cases with .html extension. I am using Firefox.
If I run them manually, individually from the selenium RC test runner window they run ok. What am I missing, this seems pretty simple but yet I'm not able to get this working.
I am using Selenium RC 1.0.3
java -jar selenium-server.jar
-firefoxProfileTemplate"C:\Users\sicky\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\zvt0jj7c.default"
-htmlsuite "*firefox" "https://4.17.8.9/" "C:\Users\sicky\Documents\selenium scripts\suite.html"
"C:\Users\sicky\Documents\selenium scripts\results.html"
What am I missing?
ok I figured this out. What I was doing was , I was converting the existing scripts into HTML. Apparently it doesnt work that way. It looks like I have to name them with html extension when I make those test cases itself, then the whole suite will run –
Actually I had the same behaviour and my test scripts were in fact created in Selenium IDE and had the proper .html extension.
However! The test suite itself didn't have the .html extension. I just added it and it started working properly.
I made then saved a test case with the Firefox extension "Selenium IDE".
Now I want to use command line to run this exported html file.
I try to follow this how-do-i-launch-the-selenium-ide-from-the-command-line-with-a-specific-test-case but it doesn't work.
Please help me.
You will need the Selenium RC which you can get from:
http://seleniumhq.org/download/
And Java 1.5 or higher (Download Java here)
1) Install Java
2) Unpack Selenium RC.
3) Open a cmd.exe window and go to the directory containing the Selenium Server (selenium-remote-control-1.0.1\selenium-server-1.0.1)
4) Run the command below:
java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://10.8.100.106" "C:\mytestsuite\mytestsuite.html" "C:\mytestsuite\results.html"
This should run your test suite in Firefox and write the results to the html file. Obviously you will need to change the "http://10.8.100.106" argument to your own server (this might just be localhost / 127.0.0.1)
It is possible to run individual test cases using Selenese Runner. You can specify a single test case file or a test suite as the unit to run.
We should execute the SeleniumRC in using following command;
java -jar filename.jar
ex:
java -jar program1.jar
the program1 consist of the followings are:
program1.class file
Resource library file such as SeleniumRC Server.jar and Selenium Java client.jar file
This method is applicable for SeleniumRC execution. We can directly create the program1.jar file from eclipse using
File->Export.
Here is an article that explains you step-by-step process of how to run Selenium RC application in Java.
Create a Java Selenium RC test script and executing the script
I have needed to do this before, and used the following:
An Ant Build (complex)
Creating a test runner class(a part of junit framework)class.
Most commonly we would run into build path errors while trying to run from cmd.
If you want to run it from command prompt you may consider writing your selenium test in python.
Make sure you have python installed if you are on windows. Mac will have python by default.
Running test from CMD is quite easy.
Follow below steps
1- Go to home directory and Set class path
Home Directory > set classpath=Home Directory\bin; and press enter
Home Directory > set classpath=Home Directory\lib*; and press enter
2-Home-directory > java org,testng.TestNG testng.xml testng2.xml testng2.xml and hit enter
I have documented all steps here. Hope it will help. Cheers
1) Running from CMD
java -cp "C:\ProjectX\Mortgage\bin;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium2.49.1\*;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium-2.49.1\libs\*" org.testng.TestNG C:\ProjectX\Mortgage\testng.xml
Run above command in C:\ProjectX\Mortgage
2) Create batch file name runner.bat
SET projectLocation=C:\ProjectX\Mortgage
CD %projectLocation%
SET classpath=%projectLocation%\bin;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium-2.49.1\*;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium-2.49.1\libs\*
java org.testng.TestNG %projectLocation%\testng.xml
PAUSE
3) Run the batch file by double clicking on it.
To be able to run in Chrome browser, you can use *chrome option instead of *firefox like below
java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*chrome" "http://localhost" "C:\testsuite\testsuite.html" "C:\testsuite\results.html"
Other browsers list include:
*firefox
*mock
*firefoxproxy
*pifirefox
*chrome
*iexploreproxy
*iexplore
*firefox3
*safariproxy
*googlechrome
*konqueror
*firefox2
*safari
*piiexplore
*firefoxchrome
*opera
*iehta
*custom
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