Using With Surefire

Simple Test

Below is a very simple test which shows how to use the Selenium Java Client Driver .

NOTE: This is a normal JUnit-style test, though you may want to use JUnit-4 or TestNG which provide better per-suite-level setup that is more ideal for configuration of the Selenium component.

package org.codehaus.mojo.selenium;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium;

public class SeleniumExampleTest
    extends TestCase
{
    protected DefaultSelenium createSeleniumClient(String url) throws Exception {
        return new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", url);
    }
    
    public void testSomethingSimple() throws Exception {
        DefaultSelenium selenium = createSeleniumClient("http://localhost:8080/");
        selenium.start();
        
        //
        // This is an exmaple of testing the Apache Geroniom Welcome page for specific text
        //
        
        selenium.click("link=JVM");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.click("link=Welcome");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        assertEquals("Geronimo Console", selenium.getTitle());
        assertEquals("Welcome", selenium.getText(
            "xpath=/html/body/table[@id='rootfragment']/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[4]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/div/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/strong"));
        
        // Test help link
        selenium.click("link=help");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.isTextPresent("This is the help for the Geronimo Administration Console Welcome.");
        
        selenium.stop();
    }
}

To run this test, and have it work, you will need to:

  • Start your application server
  • Deploy your web-aplication
  • Start the Selenium maven plugin (this plugin)
  • Execute Surefire tests

Here is an example pom to run Surefire tests w/Selenium:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    
    <groupId>example.group</groupId>
    <artifactId>example</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>openqa.org</id>
            <name>Openqa Release Repository</name>
            <url>http://archiva.openqa.org/repository/releases</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
            <releases>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </releases>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>openqa.org</id>
            <name>Openqa Snapshot Repository</name>
            <url>http://archiva.openqa.org/repository/snapshots</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
                <updatePolicy>daily</updatePolicy>
                <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
            </snapshots>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.openqa.selenium.client-drivers</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java-client-driver</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-beta-1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>selenium-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>start-server</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <background>true</background>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <!-- Skip the normal tests, we'll run them in the integration-test phase -->
                    <skip>true</skip>
                </configuration>
                
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>test</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <skip>false</skip>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    
</project>