keeping selenium browser open with phpunit/selenium

Question

when the tests fail, the browser that the selenium tests were running on closes. this is unhelpful when trying to debug. i know i have the option of a screen shot upon failu

Answer 1

A simple solution is to set the session $stopped property to true, in the test setUp() method. As the property is private, we need to use the Reflection api.

    function setUp() {

        ....

        // Set the private property $stopped of session to true, so the window is not closed on error or at the end of tests
        $myClassReflection = new \ReflectionClass( get_class( $this->prepareSession() ) );
        $secret            = $myClassReflection->getProperty( 'stopped' );
        $secret->setAccessible( true );
        $secret->setValue( $this->prepareSession(), true );

        ...
}