I'm practicing Selenium, I got a strange issue and couldn't find the reason for a while.
In my Mac, I started a Selenium standalone server and a selenium web driver.
In Elciplse, I coded my Selenium scripts, created a Selenium instance as told like this:
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444,
"*chrome", "http://sydney.mycompany.net.au/GBT");
http://sydney.mycompany.net.au/" is an internal web of our company.
When I started JUnit, it looks my selenium server didn't sent GET /GBT to our web server (I checked the wireshark trace), only the first part (http://sysney.mycompany.net.au) was counted, but /GBT was cut off.
If I changed the url to www.google.com.au, everything is fine.
I tried some public web page such as www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle, I got the same problem: the lifestyle was cut off too.
Is there any settings I need to do on seleniume server or driver side? Very thanks.
When you initialize selenium, base url is specified (i.e. domain name). After your base url was specified, you can navigate to internal web pages via selenium.open("/GBT")
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There are many selenium webdriver binding package of Golang.
However, I don't want to control browser throught server.
How can I control browser with Golang and selenium without selenium server?
You can try github.com/fedesog/webdriver which says in its documentation:
This is a pure go library and doesn't require a running Selenium driver.
I would characterize the Selenium webdriver as a client rather than a server. Caveat: I have used the Selenium webdriver (Chrome version) from .Net and I am assuming it is similar for Go.
The way Selenium works is that you will launch an instance of it from within code, and it creates a live version of the selected browser (i.e. Chrome) and your program retains control over it. Then you write code to tell the browser to navigate to a page, inspect the response, and interact with the browser by filling out form data, clicking on buttons, etc. You can see what is happening on the browser as the code runs, so it is easy to troubleshoot when the interaction doesn't go as planned.
I have used Selenium to upload tens of thousands of records to a website that has no API and only a graphical user interface. Give it a chance.
I am using htmlunit for web scraping - logging to a website on behalf of the users, settings something in their profile and then come back.
Just using pure Htmlunit and no selenium framework.
Now my question:
WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.INTERNET_EXPLORER_11);
Does this statement - creates a browser instance on the machine where i am executing the code or what it does?
I am using BrowserVersion.INTERNET_EXPLORER_11 as this is an accepted browser at that website.
How Selenium is different than htmlunit - i know we can use htmlunit as a webdriver in Selenium. Does Selenium needs a native browser instance on the machine where the code is getting executed? Does Selenium creates browser instances?
My use case is - I will be having multiple users accessing this application. I know WebClient in htmlunit is not thread safe(so have to code it as Spring proto type bean).
Is there any suggestions regarding this?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
HTMLUnit is a headless browser. So no window will be created if used with Selenium either. Setting the BrowserVersion will just tell HTMLUnit to present itself to the server as if it were a given browser (AFAIK, it will just change the User-Agent but might perform additional internal processing depending on the version). I guess this answers most of the questions but the last one.
Regarding asking for suggestions on how to implement this I would try to avoid logging in to a website that way. If the website does not provide an API for this then it is likely that it is agains the Terms Of Service. Assuming it is not, you will have to create new WebClient instances for each user each time the data needs to be extracted from the other site.
I would like to make it clear about the difference between protractor VS ghostdriver.
With protractor:
start selenium web server for testing.
multiple browser testing.
whenever it start testing, it open the browser.
With ghostdriver:
start phantomjs web server.
can be config multiple browser too.
can run separate with selenium or integrate with selenium.
My question is PhantomJS webdriver can run alone without selenium webdriver, multiple browsers and good for CI. Why do we need to run selenium and integrate selenium with phantomjs using ghostdriver?
While I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, I'll take a stab at answering it. With WebDriver, driving a browser is done via a standardized JSON-over-HTTP wire protocol. This means that you need a "server" component that understands the wire protocol to drive any particular browser. For each of the major desktop browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox), there is a server component that your WebDriver code talks to (IEDriverServer.exe, chromedriver.exe, or a Firefox browser extension, respectively). PhantomJS also implements a server component that understands the WebDriver wire protocol, so the same high-level WebDriver code can be used with PhantomJS that is used with other browsers. Note that the Selenium server is not required to drive any of the browsers on the local machine.
Now, since the protocol used is simply transmitted over HTTP, that gives WebDriver the opportunity to run the WebDriver code on one machine, while driving a browser located on an entirely different machine. That's where the Selenium server comes in. The Selenium server starts an HTTP server that understands the WebDriver JSON wire protocol. When that server receives a WebDriver command, it can forward that command to another "server" component, either running on that machine (as a standalone remote server), or on yet another machine running another instance of the Selenium server (in a "grid" configuration).
So to answer your question, yes, WebDriver code can be executed against PhantomJS without using the Selenium server. It can likewise be executed against Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and some versions of Opera, all without using the Selenium server. Notice that all of this is true without mentioning Protractor at all. Since Protractor is based on WebDriverJS, as long as there's a "server" component running, whether that's a Selenium server, chromedriver.exe, IEDriverServer.exe, or PhantomJS, the driver should be able to communicate with and drive that browser. Looking at the code, it appears that WebDriverJS (and, by extension, Protractor), should be able to execute against Chrome and PhantomJS without requiring the Selenium server, but I don't know enough about Protractor's wrapping of WebDriverJS to speak with authority.
I'm pretty new at Selenium, recently I've created a bunch of tests with Selenium-IDE and I wanted to run them through a .bat script against a selenium stand alone server so I could test in IE, Firefox, etc.
When running the tests in firefox everything goes well and they pass... now Internet Explorer (8) is another story, the testsuite uses the localhost as domain to test against.
But here's the tricky part - I have a static content provider which runs on another domain than localhost where my images, css and javascript is hosted. How can I tell Selenium Server that it's ok to use multiple domains?
I know it is disabled because of same origin policy, however firefox runs it without problems, and showing the correct css rules and images.
Well you would need to Selenium Webdriver (or Selenium RC (older version)) to do all that you just listed.
here is the page which will hep you get started.
I'm trying to get Selenium tests to work through PHPUnit. My tests pass in Firefox, but not in IE9. In IE, no matter what combination of settings I've tried, when the Selenium server is running IE will not go directly to the page, and instead displays "There is a problem with this website's security certificate".
If I shut down Selenium, I can use IE to access the site being tested with no problems.
I've tried telling IE that the CyberVillians cert is OK, I've added the cert to IE's list of certs, and tried various Selenium Server command line options.
For what it's worth, I'm using the very latest Selenium and PHPUnit files (downloaded today).
Any ideas?
The solution was indeed to abandon using Selenium RC.
I ended up using chibimagic's Webdriver for PHP, and everything works great. I'll probably end up writing a brokering class to make in interface more like that of PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase. That way, I can work up test scripts using Selenium IDE, using their PHP formatter, and then just paste into my unit test.