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I'm drowning in the Selenium documentation. What I've got so far is the ability to record a script in FireFox, export it to the new WebDriver format (JUnit4), open and tweak the test in Eclipse, then run it as a JUnit test in Eclipse.

What I'm wanting next:

  • to run the same test on multiple browsers
  • to have a suite of tests run on a remote server at a set interval
  • receive notification if a test fails

Is this possible using the path I've started down above? It's hard to tell, but I'm not sure that WebDriver is compatible with the RC server. Or, should I just take my suite of JUnit tests and integrate them with something like Cruise Control?

Thank you...

Cody Kiker
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to run the same test on multiple browsers

See: How to run Google Chrome with Selenium RC?

to have a suite of tests run on a remote server at a set interval

This is hard, especially when you are running on headless (terminal only) machine. See this article. But not impossible, read further.

receive notification if a test fails

The typical configuration is to use CI server like Bamboo, take advantage of cargo-maven-plugin to deploy your application and run Selenium tests during integration-test phase. Easier said than done. Since CI server is typically headless, you will need freaks of nature like xvfb, taking a lot of screenshots since you have no idea what is happening during the build when it fails, and so on... But it is possible, we managed to setup such a process in our company and are very happy for it.

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Tomasz Nurkiewicz
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  • I tried using the ChromeWebDriver, but no love there. For now, I think I'll just settle for having the tests run successfully in Firefox and not use Selenium to validate browser compatibility. As far as CI goes, I think we're moving towards using Hudson, so I will check out my options there. Thank you for your response. – Cody Kiker Mar 15 '11 at 16:26
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Bromine helps you to run on several browsers. Regarding "Scheduling" as already said, maven would help. Try to gather infos about Hudson. It helps a lot in scheduling. It supports selenium too. It helps to send notification also.

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