Selenium Test Results are empty [duplicate] - selenium

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.

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Display selenese-runner results in Jenkins

As I am implementing an automated way to GUI test our webapplication with selenium I ran into some issues.
I am using selenese-runner to execute our Selenium test suites, created with Selenium IDE as a post build action in Jenkins.
This works perfeclty fine, as the build fails when something is wrong, and the build succeeds if all tests are passed. And the results are stored on a per build basis as HTML files, generated be selenese-runner.
My problem is however, that I seem to be unable to find a way, how to display these results in the respective jenkins build.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this issue. Or maybe I am on the wrong path at all?
Your help is highly appreciated!
I believe the JUnit plugin should do what you want, but it doesn't work for me.
My config uses this shell script to run the tests (you can see the names of all my test suites):
/usr/bin/Xvfb &
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
cd ${WORKSPACE}
java -jar ./test/selenium/bin/selenese-runner.jar --baseurl http://${testenvironment} --screenshot-on-fail ./seleniumResults/ --html-result ./seleniumResults/ ./test/selenium/Search_TestSuite.html ./test/selenium/Admin_RegisteredUser_Suite.html ./test/selenium/Admin_InternalUser_Suite.html ./test/selenium/PortfolioAgency_Suite.html ./test/selenium/FOAdmin_Suite.html ./test/selenium/PublicWebsite_Suite.html ./test/selenium/SystemAdmin_Content_Suite.html ./test/selenium/SystemAdmin_MetaData_Suite.html
killall Xvfb
And I can see the result of the most recent test (you can see the name of my jenkins task folder)
http://<JENKINS.MY.COMPANY>/job/seleniumRegressionTest/ws/seleniumResults/index.html
Earlier tests are all saved on the Jenkins server, so I can view them if I need to.

selenium RC and Flow control

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.

selenium RC doesnt run the whole test 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.

Way to invoke the Selenium IDE From a unix command line

Is there a way to invoke the Selenium IDE From the Linux command line. I would really like to have a command that when run would cause the Selenium IDE to run the current test. (This way I can hook it into gvim's save hook and never take my hands off the keyboard)
EDIT:
I know how to get PHP unit or the like to run selenium. That works great for running tests, the problem is that right now what I am trying to do is use the selenium IDE as a macro. IE to load my app and navigate me to the part I am working on. That does not work well from phpunit because it reloads the page as soon as the test ends.
You cannot run IDE directly from the command line, however you can use Selenium RC to run scripts recorded in Selenese (i.e. recorded by Selenium IDE) without converting them to a different language.
Run Selenese Directly Within the
Server Using -htmlSuite
You can run Selenese html files
directly within the Selenium Server by
passing the html file to the server’s
command line. For instance:
java -jar selenium-server.jar
-htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://www.google.com"
"c:\absolute\path\to\my\HTMLSuite.html"
"c:\absolute\path\to\my\results.html"
This will automatically launch your
HTML suite, run all the tests and save
a nice HTML report with the results.
Note
When using this option, the server
will start the tests and wait for a
specified number of seconds for the
test to complete; if the test doesn’t
complete within that amount of time,
the command will exit with a non-zero
exit code and no results file will be
generated.
This command line is very long so be
careful when you type it. Note this
requires you to pass in an HTML
Selenese suite, not a single test.
Also be aware the -htmlSuite option is
incompatible with -interactive You
cannot run both at the same time.
The above is taken from http://seleniumhq.org/docs/05_selenium_rc.html
What I found you can do is use the unix command line tool "xdotool" to generate the click event on the button, which will run the script. Exactly what I wanted to do. This is the command line I run. (Its in a shell script)
xdotool search --name "Selenium IDE" mousemove --window %1 153 65 click 1
For the Selenium IDE I don't know a solution. Selenium IDE is the user frontend for the Selenium Core.
But to run a set of working test scripts, you can use Selenium Remote Control (RC). This is an API for the Selenium Core. It is available for Java, Ruby, Python, .Net/C#, Perl, PHP.
You can record a macro with Selenium IDE. Then you can export the macro to each of the supported programming languages. I used it successfully for Java:
Exported the script to Java
Wrapped the Java code with a JUnit test case
Used a simple main method in a Java class to parse some command line arguments and to call the JUnit runner
Started the Selenium Server from the command line
Called the Java class from the command line
It should work in an analogous way for other programming languages. Compile Java or C# to an executable or directly call the Python/Ruby/Perl script.
The wrapping as a JUnit test case is optional. The advantage is that you can execute the Selenium macro also with any other JUnit runner, e.g. in Eclipse or with the JUnit Ant task.

can't find controls in page, but only when running via selenium-server

I have a set of tests that I've developed using the Selenium IDE in Firefox. Tests run fine and all pass. Now I'm trying to port those over to C# and run the tests for IE using MSTest and selenium-server. Here's the sequence of events:
Run all tests on Firefox via Selenium IDE. All tests pass.
Export tests to MSTest (Nunit export, rename some stuff etc.)
Start selenium-server-1.0.3
Run the tests in VS2008. Selenium setup is: selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://localhost/theSite/");; note that I can browse to http://localhost/theSite/ just fine.
4a. Confirm test is launching Firefox. Got result:
17:00:30.290 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile...
17:00:33.842 INFO - Launching Firefox...
First test ( waitForText "Login" in control "ctl00_TopNavBar_LoginStatus1") fails. Can't find the control.
if ("Login" == selenium.GetText("id=ctl00_TopNavBar_LoginStatus1")) break;
or
if ("Login" == selenium.GetText("ctl00_TopNavBar_LoginStatus1")) break;
All other tests fail as well -- same reason. Each test has a waitForText at the top.
Tried running the test in *chrome, *iexploreproxy and *firefox. All fail for the same reason.
Tried dumping a screenshot using selenium.CaptureEntirePageScreenshot("c:\\temp\\screenshots\\seleniumSite.png", "background=#FFFFFF"); and the screenshot is just a white bar.
So, my question is, how do I go about debugging this and figuring out what the real problem is? Clearly the page will render and the tests will pass. It's just when I try those tests in Selenium-RC that it fails so badly. Does the Selenium IDE have some bugs related to exporting tests to C#? (I have noticed one bug).
Are you executing selenium.Start() and selenium.Open()? Do you see the page opened in the browser?
Full initialization should be something similar to:
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://localhost/");
selenium.Start();
selenium.Open("/theSite/");
Important Note! test your IDE tests by starting with an empty page. Also, when using the IDE, if a command only has one parameter put it in the Target field, even if it isn't a control name.