We have Xserver-less CentOS system for continuous integration. So no UI.
I want to run selenium test cases on it. I am using new Alpha version of Selenium2 which has WebDriver integration. It starts and ends browser by its own. Now, How do I start that in background? Something similar is possible with Internet Explorer?
I am able to run correctly on local machine. But it opens Firefox UI.
Are you able to run a virtual frame buffer? That way, all the GUI programs can believe there's graphics happening, even if there's no actual screen. You may wish to search for the term "headless". One example.
Another possibility may be to use Celerity - a ruby-based "headless browser". It uses the Watir interface (originally a competitor to selenium), which I understand to be merging with webdriver.
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I have a Java Application, which controls an automated GUI test in a FF-Browser via Selenium WebDriver Libraray. The Java App reads test cases from a database and executes them according to the code logic.
For instance, if the app reads in a Field, it'll search it by using the "findElement"-method from the Selenium framework. I do not use any test scripts for Selenium.
Currently this is happening on a local workingstation of an employee.
Now I want to move this whole environment into a Docker container.
Is it even possible to instantiate a Firefox Browser in a Container?
btw: I do not need to see the actual GUI of my browser.
And secondly:
There are several containers with selenium on dockerhub ready to use, but these do not fit my surroundings am I right?
As far as I know the SeleniumGrid expects testscripts and cannot be executed through runtime.
I open up a Linux VM (Debian:Jessie distribution) with Vagrant, in which then runs Docker.
I am still a beginner with Docker.
I couldn't find any question around here regarding my purpose.
Thanks in advance!
Is it even possible to instantiate a Firefox Browser in a Container?
Yes. The simplest way to do this is would be using the selenium images on Docker Hub.
There are several containers with selenium on dockerhub ready to use, but these do not fit my surroundings am I right?
If you think the Selenium images don't work for you because they are all based on Selenium Grid, you can use the StandaloneFirefox and StandaloneChrome images instead. These are individual instances, they do not use Selenium Grid.
BTW, the non-Debug Selenium images do not have a GUI. You mentioned you didn't need to see the browsers running so these should be fine. If you do need to see the browsers, the Debug images have a VNC server installed so you can run the image, connect with a VNC client, and watch the browsers run the tests.
I have developed a framework with selenium + .NET
I'm running all test using Bambo agent. Everything is working fine, except one thing.
As you know, chromedrive can not set window size bigger than actual machine screen resolution.
My bamboo machine has set 1920x1080 resolution. To make sure that it is for real 1920x1080, I wrote a powershell script that is executed on agent berofe tests and print out resolution. Btw I have bamboo agent with Windows
But when webdriver start browser (chrome, firefox or IE) it limits the browser window size to 1044x788. Looks like the webdriver is getting wrong resolution from bamboo agent.
As you know webdriver is not allowing to set bigger size of window than you actual machine has. Thats why we limit browser size to 1044x788
There is no way to change size of window for bigger one. Things like: Manage().Window.Maximize() or Manage().Window.Size = new Size (1920x1080) or starting chrome with webdriver adding some options for chrome like: chromeOptions.AddArgument("--window-size=1920,1080"); it is always limited to 1044x788.
Did any one have similiar problem? Can I somehow "hack" webdriver to open browser with 1920x1080? Meaby somebody knows how webdriver is checking the screen resolution? If he is looking for resolution in some windows file then meaby I could inject 1920x1080 resolution there?
Or meaby there is some setting in bamboo agent that I missed?
Why is that important? Becouse at same point I faced problem that on this smaller browser some webelements sometimes are overlaping (figure out that on screenshots) and it case some test to fail.
When I run test on my laptop it always have this 1920x1080 resolution.
P.S. I know about Selenium Grid but my aproach works great for me, until now :)
Before second I wrote another powershell script and create a screenshot on bamboo machine, and the screenshot has 1024x768 resolution. So meaby it is coused somehow by machine..
I know the answer. Bamboo runs all tasks as windows service (not as a user). That's why I was not able to see the browser and the screen resolution was wrong. There are two solutions:
Set up selenium grid hub and node on that one machine with your user, and paste url of hub in you framework. Then bamboo service will trigger selenium grid hub that is set by your 'user' and you will be able so see browser when you will log into the virtual machine and it wil have normal resolution (I have select this solution)
I think that there could be another solution to set up bamboo to run tasks not as windows service but as a user (not sure if it is possible).
I have a project that requires automating a process on a website (login, click buttons, make decisions, etc.).
Ordinarily I would use something like curl to do the automation and not worry about the UI at all, however this site uses ASPX and redirects and is just a mess, so I need to write something like a selenium test to do it.
A selenium seems like a bit of a hack though, so I was wondering if there is any alternative or tool that may be better than selenium at walking the dom and "clicking" elements?
Guidance or examples appreciated.
A non programtic way would be to use Selenium IDE. Basically you record the events via a Firefox extension and can replay easily. I understand this is a non automating way as it requires a manual playback.
However one element that I really like is that I can use this extension to record my events and then generate scripts to automate playback via Selenium Remote Control drivers.
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium
scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to
record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire
Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back
tests in the actual environment that they will run in.
Yes I know you think selenium is a hack but it is rather pretty good!
I have some scripts (AutoIt) browsing YouTube for list of trending videos etc. It involves no mouse clicks (just keystrokes). The script takes a long time to finish and I can't use my PC during this time (it needs the window activated to work on it).
Is there anything I can do about this? Can these scripts run from a server or some stuff like that?
I've run into a similar problem: got to run automation with AutoIt on a Windows Server and the whole thing had got to be headless. Using Remote Desktop simply didin't work because then I'd had to keep a client opened and maximized all the time.
Short solution: install a VNC server in the Windows Server, open a client from another computer, log in and close the client. As the AutoIt script was being started by a Jenkins job, before closing the client the Jenkins applet had to be started via web interface.
By the way, I've had this idea from this post: How to run remote headless GUI automation.
As Johannes said, AutoIt probably wouldn't be suitable (and likewise AutoHotkey), but you could check out the many GUI and web testing frameworks that exist for other languages. With some of those, you can run a "headless" browser (a program that navigates the web just like a browser, but has no visible window); or you can run a standard browser on a virtual display like a Xvfb X11 server. This would be easiest if the server (or wherever it's going to run) is running a Unix-like OS, but it may be possible with Windows too.
Selenium Webdriver seems to be a very popular choice for scripting and testing actual browsers. It's natively Java but has bindings for languages like Ruby. It can also hook into something called HtmlUnit, which is also Java; that's one of the more popular headless browsers. Another (a relative newcomer) is phantom.js, which is in Javascript but (again) has bindings for other languages.
As far as I know this will not work unless the user account is logged on. You could try to see if you could convert it to an exe and run this as a service, but even then I don't think this will work. Let me know if you found out!
You can either:
Hide your window (SetWindowState #SW_HIDE) or something like that...
and use ControlClicks (if the they are original controls!)
or
Hide your window and use SendControl
or
use SendKeepActive
or
use OLEObjects like ie.au3 for automation.
Good Luck
I'm executing selenium tests with testng, that are started on a remote system with Selenium RC via hudson (with ssh connection). The remote system is windows xp with MKS Toolkit installed, hence ssh. Tests are NOT executed as a windows service.
I've tried using both captureScreenshot and captureEntirePageScreenshot methods. The first one always produces a black image. The second one creates the correct screen shot but it only works on Firefox and our tests usually pass on Firefox and fail in other browsers, so it is crucial to capture screen shots for the other browsers (mainly IE and Safari). The tests are ran in parallel, with many browser windows open at the same time. I'm not certain if this is what's causing the problem. Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Unfortunately screenshots in Selenium have been problematic from the start in browsers that are not Firefox. This is something that we Selenium Developers have been working on for a while to correct.
The latest work has been updating Snapsie to work in IE. There is a blog post at http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2010/02/remote-screenshots-mit-selenium-und-dem-robot-framework/ that explains what has happened.
I have noticed that if the screen isn't active, i.e. the screensaver has kicked in, it can produce black screenshots.
Edit:
I just had a thought. You can always run Castro to video record your tests and then watch it play back. This is something SauceLabs use to run Selenium in the cloud.
Write a method for this and call that whereever you need to take the screenshot. Use the java.awt package which has been used in selenium. For example, check this site
After setting Windows Auto-Logon, and launching process not as Windows Service, I found how to solve the Remote Desktop with Black Screenshots problem of IEDriverServer.exe, by creating a batch file that disconnects RDP, instead of closing the RDP session with the regular X button:
%windir%\system32\tscon.exe %SESSIONNAME% /dest:console
See more details here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/24529629/658497
(Although, I would prefer there was a way to run it as the default action, when terminating RDP session with X Windows button).