I'm trying to automate a task using Selenium-RC where the user doesn't have to be logged in. Here's the ideal scenario:
Running as a scheduled task and the user is not logged in.
Selenium will start at a scheduled task, open IE and go about the script.
I'm not sure this is possible, but I need to simulate user interactions with IE without the user being logged in. what would be the best way to do this?
IDEA:
would I able to put Selenium on a virtual machine, have the virtual machine run as a scheduled task on a physical machine; so when the user is logged out the virtual machine can still be started, and selenium will run on the virtual machine.
If you are using ant build, you could create a batch file to invoke the build. Now you could schedule the execution of batch.
I suppose you could same while using TestNG framework with java. So you create a batch file for executing test using testng.xml and then have it scheduled.
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I connect remote windows server in Jenkins by node&slave concept and I create a "freestyle" job and run batch command in Jenkins in that command I wrote selenium scripts. the job was working fine.
When a test fails it takes a screenshot of the browser window. Unfortunately, the browser is always a fairly low resolution: 1024 x 656.
If I run the tests manually within the VM (logging in and running them outside of Jenkins) then they're run at the desktop resolution of the login.
So, my question: how can I set the screen resolution that is used when the tests are run by the Jenkins Service? Is this possible?
We have a CI setup using bamboo where one job was to run our automation, it checks out our Automation Solution from a repository, and run it using NUnit runner where it contains tests using selenium webdriver and some unit tests. It runs unit tests(not using webdriver commands) just fine, but not the webdriver tests.
We are sure that the solution is being checkout correctly because we can run the test using the command line referencing the created local repository, including tests that uses webdriver using the command below:
C:\pathToNUnitConsole\nunit-console C:\pathToCreatedLocalRepositoryInTheServer\NUnitTest.dll -include=FirefoxBrowserTest
We can see that the bamboo job never launched a browser, and we are getting test failure for not seeing browser elements. Also, we are getting error as we see in the logs:
10-Apr-2015 13:19:49 http://10.215.12.28:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=587410860
10-Apr-2015 13:20:42 JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/CertUtils.jsm, line 168: NS_ERROR_ABORT: Certificate issuer is not built-in.
I don't know if this is your problem, but it sounds very similar to an issue I had trying to get NUnit runner to run tests built in SpecsFor.MVC, which is a wrapper that deals with instantiating an IIS Express instance, deploying a target web application to known location, then using Selenium/Chrome Driver to run the tests against the web app.
The problem I had was trying to run the Bamboo remote agent as a windows service. The Local Service account was not able to access the interactive desktop. Also, changing the service to run as a specific user account still failed, as the service was not allowed access to the user's isolated Session0.
I could login as that test user and run the test from the command line no trouble, but I couldn't get it to run when initiated by the remote agent windows service.
I eventually fixed it by using AlwaysUp (not a plug. I'm sure other similar solutions are available). This allowed me to set the machine running the tests to always log in as the test user on startup, would automatically restart the bamboo remote agent if it was closed for some reason and most importantly, to give the service access to the user's isolated session0.
Hope that might give you a few clues...
I'm a QA Engineer where I work and I want to enable all the other
team members to run the tests without me- i.e - even when I'm not here- they can for example get to some url, enter the url of the environment they want to test and play the tests, without installing anything on their computers.
what would be the best practice?
thanks.
Sounds like Jenkins will do what you want.
In that situation I would:
Install Jenkins on a dedicated machine (onsite or in the cloud), or try out a commercial Jenkins cloud provider
Configure a Jenkins job that executes your tests (you can configure the tests to run on the same machine where Jenkins is installed, or if you would rather have Jenkins run the tests on a second machine, that's possible too)
Show your team members how to access Jenkins and launch the test job (or, you can also configure your test job to run automatically at a certain time of day, or even better, when changes are made in your version control system)
Selenium GRID2 is setup with a hub and three nodes (VMs Windows). All the config files are set and I start the services with a couple batch files executed on each machine. Once everything is started up it works great. When the remotely connected user who executed the batch files actually logs out of the machine the tests fail to connect to the browsers anymore.
I could leave the user account logged on after starting everything and just stay logged on. However, I would much rather find a way to get the services to startup and stay active without any user logged on the systems. Is there a way to force all the services to stay active after all users logout of the machine. Also need the full browser to function as there are screenshots as well. Could someone point me in the right direction or tell me how to get that to work or if it's possible?
Setup a scheduled task via Task Scheduler to execute the batch files to start the node on each machine. You can set a trigger to execute the batch file on system startup, or at a specific time.
Also, when creating the task, select the option "Run whether user is logged on or not"
I also add a task to restart the node machines (every night) to keep it clean of stale browser windows.Since the node batch files runs at startup, you do not need to login to the hub/node machine to start it manually.
i integrated my selenium scripts (using junit) with Hudson. i invoked my job through ant . My problem was my scripts are running successfully but the fire fox browser is not getting opened. At this moment i am not using selenium grid .please provide any suggestion
Check whether you run Hudson as a service using your own account. If you want to see Firefox browser you must select Local System Account as a service runner (Log on option in service properties) Then there is a possibility to check interact with desktop checkbox and it makes browser "visible" while running your tests.