selenium-rc

I have the following issue. When I start my selenium test, to get to the part where the actual test is performed, I need to start the browser, log in, do some other operations, and then it comes the part I want to test. Isn't there a way to do the first part only once, leave the session and the browser open. And for a next test Run only continue this session, without starting up. So basically I would have a test initializing, and leaving the session open. And other tests which use this initialized session, reuse the session every time. I am using Java, and Selenium RC. Thanks! It depends a bit

I am using PHPUnit 3.4.12 to drive my selenium tests. I'd like to be able to get a screenshot taken automatically when a test fails. This should be supported as explained at http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/selenium.html#selenium.seleniumtestcase.examples.WebTest2.php class WebTest { protected $captureScreenshotOnFailure = true; protected $screenshotPath = 'C:\selenium'; protected $screnshotUrl = 'http://localhost/screenshots'; public function testLandingPage($selenium) { $selenium->open("http://www.example.com"); $selenium->fail("fail"); ... } } As you can see, I am making the test to

Jenkins can't launch selenium tests (ubuntu) error 11:26:24.652 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.Server@ab50cd 11:26:24.738 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile... HTML suite exception seen: java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out waiting for profile to be created! at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxChromeLauncher.waitForFullProfileToBeCreated(FirefoxChromeLauncher.java:360) at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxChromeLauncher.populateCustomProfileDirectory(FirefoxChromeLauncher.java:114) at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxChromeLauncher

<table id="ext-comp-1389" class="x-btn x-btn-text-icon " cellspacing="0" style="width: auto;"> <tbody class="x-btn-small x-btn-icon-small-left"> <tr> <tr> <td class="x-btn-ml"> <td class="x-btn-mc"> <em class="x-btn-split" unselectable="on"> <button id="ext-gen128" class="x-btn-text create" type="button">New</button> </em> </td> <td class="x-btn-mr"> <i> </i> </td> </tr> <tr> </tbody> </table> Above is how the HTML element is embedded..! The HTML element is a 'New' button with a '+' sign next to it...If, I click on the '+' only, I can get the menu options, which are something like, 'D', 'P',

I need your help to wire things related to selenium. Now over the past few weeks I have been reading about Selenium documents. There is selenium IDE (a firefox extension for record and replay tests) Selenium RC - (selenium 1.0). This seems to be deprecated now and uses a proxy HTTP server to run test on multiple browsers. Selenium Web Driver - (selenium 2.0). This is the latest one and one which should be used now for automated tests. (Each browser implements Web Driver API) I also read that web driver interacts with native browser support for automation and does not require HTTP server. Then

I am programmatically creating test accounts, and then immediately trying to log in w/ them using a selenium driven browser. Unfortunately, the browser is just redirected to the facebook homepage. I can briefly see what appears to be the correct url prior to the redirect flash by, so I have no reason to believe the browser isn't going where I intend it to. That said, if create a fake account, and then just paste the login_url into a browser, things work fine. Anyone have any idea why that might be unique about using Selenium here? Is there anything I need to do to prepare the browser for https

Does anyone have experience using Selenium to automate testing of a webapp that uses Facebook Connect for user login? Any tips or methods that you recommend? Depends what you want to do? Will you be using a real-real Facebook User (which is phone verified by Facebook)? Safest and most reliable ,but very difficult ( impossible ) to gather "real" users (phone verified by FB). In terms of defining aspects of the user/connections details, like education history, work history, name, age etc(specially if you do not have access to all the "real" facebook accounts). Fake facebook users created for

I have a python script that uses selenium RC; specifically webdriver. I would love to have the script run as a post-commit hook, ideally through IE, Safari (if possible), Chrome & Firefox. But I'm not sure what I'd need to do, since every time I run it on my local machine, a browser pops up. I've heard of "saucelabs". Is it the best solution? plaes Yes, you need to have X server running because Selenium requires a running browser and browsers need some kind of X server in order to run. Fortunately there are many types of X servers and one of them is Xvfb aka X virtual framebuffer that does all