I'm using PHPUnit to run my Selenium tests. I'm using captureScreenshotOnFailure to get screenshots when my assertions fail.
I run tests on a Linux box, a Mac and a Windows box. The tests are all run from the Linux (Ubuntu) box.
I would like to get all of the failure screenshots in one location. Everything that I've read, just says that the screenshots are put on the host computer (if the test fails in IE on the Windows box, the screenshots have to be saved on the Windows box).
Does anyone have any great ideas on how I could make my screenshots all "end up" on the Linux box, regardless of where they occurred?
Make a shared drive/folder (e.g. SMB or WebDAV) on linux and mount this on the other computers, so PHPUnit saves the screenshots to this drive.
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I've been working for few months with QTP (UFT One 15.0.2), and today it has stopped recording (when I do the actions no lines are written in the script and no objects are added to the objects repository) and recognizing objects with the spy feature.
I am using the WEB add-in, and as I've been working for months with Mozilla Firefox I have checked that the WebExtension.xpi is well added to the browser.
I've tried to open mozilla before and after UFT One, I've also restarted my computer, I've checked the size of the screen browser is 100% and that in the Record and Run Settings the option " Record and run on any open browser" is checked for Web.
This situation usually occurs because the company's IT department has changed the related policy, causing the UFT Firefox extension to fail to run normally.
You can check if the HP.UFT.Firefox.NativeMessagingHost running in Windows task manager after openning Firefox while the extension is enabled, and check if the Micro Focus UFT Agent content script loaded in Firefox debugger's Sources tab(note: you need to check the "Enable browser chrome and add-on debugging toolboxes" in Web Developer Tools' Setting firstly).
If one of these things does not exist, you should check the policy change with your IT: did they block the related thing running?
If they all exist, you can open a CPE case to UFT One support. They will help you to do the further investigation.
I have checked that I had the same problem with chrome browser, so not an Extension problem.
Finally I have decided to uninstall and reinstall UFT One, but while uninstalling an error appeared and UFT persisted on the system.
After two trys I have launched UFT One and it has started working again.
I am not sure how long it will work.
I know I'll get crap for this but it's worth it if someone can help.
I can't find a guide, tutorial, or instructions anywhere for installing web driver on a windows machine. I've got a site running on a homestead vagrant box and need a way of running acceptance tests locally. I had tests setup using PhpBrowser but those don't simulate JavaScript. If anyone knows of a guide to do this or a better way to run acceptance tests it would help immensely. I've got Ajax calls so PhpBrowser and resources like it won't work.
Thanks!
Just download the selenium webserver the jar file and run it in a command shell with java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.43.1.jar. The selenium server will now listen on the default port 4444. If you run your test it should work as expected. Keep in mind that selenium webserver opens firefox and uses it for testing. It's pretty useful for watching the test cases.
If you want a headless test (no visible browser) you need to download phantomjs. Unpack it and run the phantomjs.exe with --webdriver=4444 as an argument (so phantomjs.exe --webdriver=4444).
Download and Run the selenium-server-standalone-2.43.1.jar as stated in the comment. I had to add firefox_binary: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe under capabilities: in my acceptance.suite.yml file. I also added it to the path variable but I'm not sure if that made a difference. Had to add the firefox_binary to make it work.
I am currently working in Automation QA. Our project using Java: jbehave, thucydides, selenium. We are working in Ubuntu OS.
Every time I run my tests, I have to stop doing everything(coding, browsing the web), because every click or any action of selenium is taking driver window(we are using chrome driver) in focus(makes window active) and if i do something i mess up the test. Our team is wasting a lot of time because of this.
We have tried Phantomjs, it doesn't work correctly, cannot find elements etc... And also to run tests in virtual machine using vagrant isn't working for us(for company specific reasons).
It is fine if Chrome driver will take over active window when it starts, as long as it would continue performing different actions in background. Strange, but in my previous project(windows, c#, mstest) chromedriver would behave exactly like this without any additional setup.
Please help, I know few other teams having this issue. Seems like this issue only on Mac and linux.
After having this issue for a long time I have finally found a good solution. This issue still remains on ChromeDriver level, so if there are any updates on this side let me know.
The easiest way to run tests in Ubuntu in a background is using VNC Server. Here are the steps you should follow:
Install vnc server from ubuntu terminal:
sudo apt-get install vnc4server
Start server with any number(I use 7). First time doing it enter password for vnc server(Remember it!).
vncserver :7
To start server in full screen add "geometry" to last command with your screen resolution for example:
vncserver :7 -geometry 1920x1080
Download some VNC Viewer. I use Real VNC.
Go to Real vnc viewer, start new connection and enter:
VNC Server: localhost:7
Encryption: Let VNC Server choose
Press connect and enter your vnc server password(the one from step 2).
New window should be opened, open new terminal in it.
Run your test from terminal. I use java maven project so for me it works like this. Navigate to project folder and run: mvn clean install
If you want simply to run test in hidden mode using only terminal(without opening vncviewer) use this command:
cd path/to/project
xterm -display localhost:7 -e mvn clean install
If you want to stop server:
vncserver -kill :7
Hope this will help many of you.
For me (I had the same problem in my Grails project's functional test using Chrome; not with Firefox) works this set up:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--start-maximized --disable-popup-blocking");
new ChromeDriver(options);
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I have got the solutions which is using xvfb to specified a display to selenium, when I test my web program. Envviroments: CentOS6, Selenium2, robotframwork, Firefox. And My steps are:
startup vncserver specified displaynumber. vncserver :6
set DISPLAY with same number. DISPLAY=:6
test my project.
kill vncserver. vncserver -kill :6
And firefox can startup correctly. Now, I know what to do to startup firefox, but I dont know why. What's the relationship among selenium2, vncserver, xvfb, robotframework? For short, I want to know how selenium2 or robotframework use xserver from vncserver or xvfb. I did not find my answer in http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/ and https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library. Anyone knows that? Any references? thx
I am not an expert but I will try to give an explanation of how I understand it.
By default, your Centos has no display configured.
It means you can not launch any application that has graphical interface.
So you not launch Firefox.
xvfb and vncserver allow you to set-up such a display.
xvfb will create a in-memory display.
Then, "set DISPLAY" will tell your OS which display to use.
If you set it to the xvfb you launched, then you are able to launch graphical app on your centos but they will not show up as they are in memory.
Then, for the Robot/Selenium part, they are not aware of all that.
Your Robot Framework test will call Selenium library that will launch Firefox as you would launch it from the command line, so it will be launched on the xvfb display.
So to your question "how did selenium know that variable DISPLAY has already been set?": selenium does not need to know. He sends it to the current DISPLAY and it will be the one you configured.
Hope this helps you to understand.
I'm trying to solve a problem and I was hoping I could do it with Selenium Grid but I'm not entirely sure that it's possible. Here's my problem...I'm developing test cases using Selenium WebDriver and I need my tests to run on a Windows machine however the AUT runs on a Linux server. I have several tools that only run on Linux and I would like to be able to run some commands/tests on the Windows machine and others in the Linux server. For instance
Test Starts -> Firefox launches (Windows machine)
Login to site (Windows machine)
Run command in Linux server
Return running commands/tests on the Windows box.
Alternatively I could figure out how to run those commands remotely from a Windows machine but I'm not looking forward to doing that.
Out of the box, you cannot use selenium to run commands on your local machine. Selenium/Webdriver is a browser testing tool and can interact only with browser.
Updated Answer based on your comments
Common part to both ways (which I think you already know)
In your java code you should have the code for webdriver/selenium commands that will do step 1 and 2. Your java code should also the contain the logic/code to execute the linux commands as step 3. Step 4 should again be your webdriver command.
This test code should run from the linux server so that the java command execution will happen in the linux box.
Now the only pending part is the execution of test in remote machine.
Method 1 without using grid
Start the selenium server in the windows machine. Point your java tests to the selenium server running in this machine. If your windows machine IP is 10.0.0.1, you should initialize the webdriver object as
WebDriver wd = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://10.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub"),DesiredCapabilities.Firefox());
This will send all your webdriver commands to the selenium server running in 10.0.0.1 on port 4444. Your tests will then get executed in the windows machine. For this to work, your linux server and windows machine should be in same network.
Method 2 using grid.
Its all the same as above, but instead of giving the ip/dns name of windows machine, you should give the ip/dns name of the hub machine. You should also have windows machine registered as an RC to that hub.
I think with AutoIT kind of windows frameworks, we can invoke C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe to open a command prompt and run some .bat files. If it is Linux /bin/csh or /bin/bash myscript.sh.