How do you Configure Selenium Server using selenese command from Maven-Selenium plugin? - maven-2

Question

I am trying to configure the selenium server that is used by the selenese command by the Maven-Selenium plugin from codehaus. I have tried to create multiple executions within the plugin start the server in the pre-integration-test phase, which didn't work. The selenium-server simply went into an infinite loop, listening on a port.
I want to know if there is a way to override/configure the selenium-server that the selenese command uses in the plugin. Please let me know.
Please see the POM snippet below.
....
<properties>
<selenium.version>2.0b3</selenium.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium</artifactId>
<version>${selenium.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<exclusions>
<!-- prevent ant:ant versus org.apache.ant:ant collision -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>Run-Script</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>selenese</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<browser>*firefox</browser>
<suite>src/test/selenium/html/TestSuite.html</suite>
<startURL>http://localhost:4444/</startURL>
<results>${project.build.directory}/results/${browser.type}-${test.type}-results.html</results>
<port>4444</port>
<timeoutInSeconds>${selenium.server.timeout.seconds}</timeoutInSeconds>
<multiWindow>${multiple.windows}</multiWindow>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
....
Thanks,
Juan

Answer 1

Try setting startURL to the url of the application under test instead of pointing to the selenium rc server url. For example, if your selenium test case is clicking a link on google, set startURL to http://www.google.com
Here's a snippet from my pom that's working**
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<browser>*firefox</browser>
<startURL>http://my-site.com</startURL>
<suite>test-suite</suite>
<!-- <logOutput>true</logOutput> -->
<!-- <timeoutInSeconds>30</timeoutInSeconds> -->
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>test</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>selenese</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
** It works great except that on Mac OS, firefox just stays open and doesn't close?! But, hope that helps.