I use remote hudson server for test automation of webapplication. When I run the automated test cases they ran on the browser of that remote machine. I rather want them to run on my machine.
Is there a way I can achieve this.
Regards
You can run Jenkins slave on your machine and tie the job to it (there is such an option on the job definition page). Moreover, you can use NodeLabel Parameter plugin and use a parameter to specify to which node you want to tie your job. For example: by default it will run on Master, but you also can specify your slave when running it manually.
You don't say what tool you're using to drive the browser. If you're using selenium, you can set up a selenium server on your machine, then direct your tests to use your machine.
Considering you are talking about a test browser , I assume you use the selenium plugin for hudson/jenkins. you can change the location/capabilities of the node where the test are run against in your testcode.
capabilities.setBrowserName("firefox");
capabilities.setPlatform(org.openqa.selenium.Platform.WINDOWS);
also it's possible to exclude the master from the node list by editing the config file in the jenkins plugin folder
If you are refering to just restricting where the project can be run, this can be found
https://[jenkins name]/job/[jobname]/configure
under Restrict where this project can be run
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I made a Selenium code by Java to test a certain web-application that our company developed.
Now, developers fix the application quite often and every time they update or fix, testers should test this new version of webapp to assert all functions working fine before application release.
Let's suppose that there are 100 testers who do not know how to run Selenium code or install Java.
I decide to create a testing server so that testers can access this server and run test. They also can see all test histories and details so far as well.
Is it possible and realistic to develop a system that runs like server and client? If yes, Can Jenkins do that? Other solutions are welcome!
Thank you in advance and happy new year!
Jenkins is one of the tools, you able to use for this, since it provides a simple way to delegate some tasks to already configured envs, nodes share them for multiple users and hide technical complexity. Also this would be aligned to your CI process, e.g. first - deploy the new code to test env, next - run test automation.
But the same also might be said for some other CI tools, so I suggest to pick some CI tool which your development already uses.
The architecture could be:
1 CI task for run tests -->
2 CI Node or docker image with java, selenium,
maven(gradle), it may be some headless Linux -->
3 Selenium cluster which able to launch multiple
selenium sessions (to cover your testers needs). It could
be some selenium cloud service, or configured
onpremise env. -->
4 Selenium grid hub (may be headless)-->
5 Selenium grid nodes... The final nodes env
should match your test requirements. It could
be Docker with linux (headless or not) or
Windows/MacOs.
Pick some tools and look for quick start guides/tutorials.
Start from simple implementation and improve it continuously.
I may say that for many cases Docker + Ubuntu + Headless Chrome is fine, lightweight and rapid.
Some references (examples the tools I've used):
Jenkins + Selenium + Maven https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-maven-jenkins-integration/
Selenoid (selenium grid implementation based on docker containers) https://github.com/aerokube/selenoid
Report Portal (just reporting tool) - something more than the default testng report provides. https://reportportal.io/
This is very shortly. The same might be done with a lot of other tools.
I'd like to Integrate Ranorex to Jenkins and i have 2 staff i'd like to check
- First should only on the slave where the Ranorex automation should be triggered that Jenkins is not started as a service or on both master and slave
- Second i'm working with JenkinsFile pipline and i'd like execute Renorex test from this script (jenkinsfile) but i couldn't found any solution any ideas
Thanks a lot :P
I can help you with the first question you have:
The Jenkins service must be executed only on the machine where the automated tests are to be executed. You must also have Ranorex installed on that machine with a runtime license available. Jenkins can be configured to provide continuous integration, so each time you update the source code from Ranorex Jenkins will be able to automatically compile the solution and run the automated test.
Ranorex has an add-on that you can install in Jenkins to integrate the run configurations in order to be launched.
I need to have selenium server running in order to run some tests I'm creating in http://seleniumbuilder.github.io/se-builder/
This is not for the selniumIDE and not for a server grid, I need to be able to export from selenium builder and am directed to run them on a local selenium server, e.g. localhost:4444
I use the download page at http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ but there isn't much info on basic stuff.
I see the link for the download and I can save the .jar file Now what? I don't know Java. Trying to click thru gets
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How should I be compiling and then using it?
Selenium means different things depending on context.
Do you want to record/playback simple web browser interactions? You want SeleniumIDE or Selenium Builder. You need a standalone jar when replaying the tests from the command line; I think the docs tell you how but I couldn't find it. This small blog post tells you how. Essentially: download the Selenium Standalone Server jar file from SeleniumHQ and run it something like this:
java -jar c:\selenium\selenium-server-standalone-2.21.0.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://localhost:8080" "c:\test\my-test-suite.html" "c:\test\my-test-result.html"
(Note: even though it is called a "server", in this mode it does not listen on a port for incoming requests or anything like that; to most people's way of thinking, the jar file is actually a client in this mode, and the browser that it connects to is the server! The jar file does include a server, you're just not using it when executing a Selenese file like this.)
Do you want to run tests locally from your unit test runner (JUnit, NUnit, etc.?). You probably don't need a server. All the instructions are on this doc page.
Do you want to run the tests via a grid of multiple browsers, allowing you to distribute the load and do multi-browser testing easily? This is where Selenium server shines. Everything you need to know is on this doc page.
Basically my requirement is :
I have developed a framework using selenium webdriver,maven and testng for a application under test.
Now i have to pass that on to the client without sharing the source code ..so that if he wants he can run the test in his machine without having everything else installed ..except java. and the output should be stored in one of the specific folders of the client machine.
Can i use any plugin in maven which will store the result or copy the result file to any folder of client machine.?
Please guide me how to achieve this.. how to pass on the above to client so that test run smoothly in his machine .
is there anything i need to take care while am using maven in the project?
I am using chrome browser to run the tests..
The application under test is available to be accessed from any type of browser.
kindly suggest.
I would like to run multiple Selenium Tests (on a Jenkins server) at the same time.
It currently runs only a single test at a time cause ChromeDriver seems to communicate over a special port. So somehow I guess I have to pass some kind of port settings via Selenium to the ChromeDriver to start up multiple tests.
The Selenium website unfortunately is empty for that topic:
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#parallelizing-your-test-runs
From my point of view it makes no difference if the Test runs locally or on Jenkins, the problem is the same. We need to somehow configure ChromeDriver. The question is just how.
Anybody has some ideas or pointers where to look at and what files are involved to get this done?
You can run multiple instances of chromedriver locally quite easily, just instantiate multiple driver objects, chromedriver will keep the profiles separate and find a port to run on all by itself.
Here a link to an example that can run multiple tests using TestNG and Maven:
https://github.com/Ardesco/Selenium-Maven-Template
Just clone the above project and run the following in the command line:
mvn verify -Pselenium-tests -Dbrowser=chrome -Dthreads=2
It takes advantage of TestNG's ability to manage the thread pool and will open up multiple instances if specified. You can do the same thing with jUnit but you'll need to write a custom test runner to fire the tests off into individual threads.
If you decide to use gradle it can deal with managing the thread pools for you with both TestNG and jUnit and a lot of people prefer it to maven.
This is an old question, but for anyone still reading along, it is very possible to run multiple Selenium WebDriver instances in parallel without using Grid. I have successfully tested this using Chrome, FireFox, and PhantomJs (up to 5). Each WebDriver instance uses an isolated context, so session conflict should not be an issue. Be wary of server side conflicts though, depending on the requirements of your website!
For NUnit users, NUnit 3.2.1 now has a 'TestContext.Current.WorkerId' property that will allow you to isolate one WebDriver instance per NUnit worker.
Running multiple browsers on the same machine will often hinder performance, so be careful not to use too many browsers instances, or you may actually increase your testing time!
What you are looking for is Selenium Grid 2.
Grid allows you to :
scale by distributing tests on several machines ( parallel execution )
manage multiple environments from a central point, making it easy to run the tests against a vast combination of browsers / OS.
minimize the maintenance time for the grid by allowing you to implement custom hooks to leverage virtual infrastructure for instance.
I agree using grid in combination with Maven parallelized class, you can run multiple instance in one PC. Jenkins is possible when you are using Ant for your build ,then you can specify which test can be run parallel.
Its quite easy to set it up though ;)