Jenkins : Selenium GUI tests are not visible on Windows

问题:

When I run my selenium test (mvn test) from jenkins (windows) I see only the console output. I don't see the real browsers getting opened . How can I configure jenkins so that I can see the browsers running the test?

回答1:

I had the same problem, i got the solution after many attempts.

If you are using jenkins as a windows service you need to do the following :

1) In windows service select the service of jenkins

2) Open properties window of the service -> Logon-> enable the checkbox "Allow service to interact with desktop"

After then you should reboot the service jenkins

This solution works ONLY on windows XP, hope this help you :)

回答2:

I got the solution. I ran jenkins from command prompt as "java -jar jenkins.war" instead of the windows installer version. Now I can see my browser based tests being executed.

回答3:

If you are already doing what @Sachin suggests in a comment (i.e. looking at the machine where Jenkins actually runs) and still do not see the browsers, then your problem may be the following:

If you run Jenkins as a service in the background it won't open apps in the foreground. You may either try to run it not as a service in the foreground, or run it as a Local System account and check Allow the service to interact with desktop option. In the latter case you may get into permission problems, though.

Update: To make sure this answer is understood properly by others: Jenkins Windows 'native' installation is not really native. It's a wrapper around Java that runs it as a service.

回答4:

In the case of Windows 7 you should not install jenkins as windows application (because in this recent version, Microsoft decided to give services their own hidden desktop even you enable the functionality "interact with desktop" in jenkins service), you may have to deploy it from a war file as follows:

1) Download jenkins.war from Jenkins official site

2) Deploy it by the command prompt : java -jar {directoryOfJenkinsFile}/jenkins.war

3) Now you can access jenkins administration on http:// localhost:8080

Hope that helps you !

回答5:

To interact with desktop GUI, you should launch slave agent via JNLP: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#Distributedbuilds-LaunchslaveagentviaJavaWebStart

After adding the node in Jenkins (configured as Java Web Start launch), just make a startup batch script on the node machine:

java -jar slave.jar -jnlpUrl http://{Your Jenkins Server}:8080/computer/{Your Jenkins Node}/slave-agent.jnlp 

(slave.jar can be downloaded from http://{Your Jenkins Server}:8080/jnlpJars/slave.jar)

See more answers here: How to run GUI tests on a jenkins windows slave without remote desktop connection?

回答6:

this is an issue for Jenkins. on Windows it is possible to access logon user's session (screen) under system account. to make the UI testing visible, Jenkins needs to bypass UAC (user access control) at background. this solution works for me with my own service running as system account.

回答7:

For some time I have used Jenkins as a service Windows 2008 R2 Standart (with allowing to interact with desktop).

I ran the acceptance tests that worked perfectly outside of the continuous integration system. I've seen the browser, and what is happening there. However, in CI I couldn't see the browser and the tests were failed in random order.

According to: Session 0 Isolation on Services and Drivers in Windows:

In Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and earlier versions of Windows, all services run in Session 0 along with applications. This situation poses a security risk. In Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and later versions of Windows, the operating system isolates services in Session 0 and runs applications in other sessions, so services are protected from attacks that originate in application code.

Thus Jenkins must be run from the command line:

java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=... 

Note that if you already have Jenkins CI that configured as a Windows service, before deploying you'll only need to specify JENKINS_HOME to the directory that was used earlier - all previous settings will be applied.

回答8:

If jenkins installed by windows installer it is showing only Console out put only. To see browsers download jenkins.war file and run java -jar jenkins.war from command line. Go through this site: http://learnseleniumtesting.com/jenkins-and-continuous-test-execution/

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