Comments on: Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:29:00 +0000

I have the same issue/situation Tom. Did you resolve this? I’m trying to have a dependent build execute Selenium tests automatically. I’ve created a build the fires dependently, but I don’t know how to configure the Selenium build… The devil is in the details…

By: Rohitdewangan2101

Rohitdewangan2101 — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:44:00 +0000

its good but required some more information that how can we use that application in selenium RC.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:11:00 +0000

How? What are the steps to put it in a execute shell in Hudson. You don’t cover this in any detail!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:24:00 +0000

Good post Ben, I have set up something along the same lines.

I also integrate with JUnit, WebLogic WLST and SoapUI.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:22:00 +0000

selenium must have a lock o a folder. You can use SysInteternal Tools (ProcessExplorer) to find out what process has the lock.

By: C_lawn

C_lawn — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:19:00 +0000

Hi Jim.

Add an extra Job in Hudson call test and trigger that job from a previous build job. You can use different jobs to perform different tasks then link them within Hudson. From there you can either call the Selenium Runner or make the test cases into a Java/.Net (or whatever) application and have Hudson call it in the Build section.

By: jim collins

jim collins — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:52:46 +0000

You never discuss how to get Hudson to talk to Selenium and fire off the tests.

By: newbea

newbea — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:56:15 +0000

But there is one problem.
The firefox windows which are opened to run the selenium test,does not get closed.
So next time when i run ‘mvn clean verify’ it says:
“Unable to delete directory selenium”

Then if i manually close firefox and again run the command it runs successfully.

Please help me to solve this problem.

By: VARUN

VARUN — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:49:25 +0000

Hi i am automating my build with HUDSON and MAVEN.
I am running selenium test after successful deployment.
Please tell me what is the advantage of running selenium server on a separate machine.
And how to do it because as far as i know maven can start selenium server on local host only.

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Adam Goucher » Blog Archive » A Smattering of Selenium #2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:14:06 +0000

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By: peterc

peterc — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:57:11 +0000

Check out Fitnium and DbFit for Selenium/DB combination

By: Soapbox Rants and Raves » Continuous Deployment with Hudson…

Soapbox Rants and Raves » Continuous Deployment with Hudson… — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:24:03 +0000

[...] about Selenium on the Hudson mailing list and found this interesting blog by Ben Rometsch on “Easy Automated Testing with Hudson and Selenium“. I really liked this picture from the article (hopefully it will spark your interest too!) [...]

By: gokhan

gokhan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:26:32 +0000

Deployment to a test webserver is displayed in the image however it is not mentioned how to do it

By: James

James — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:39:42 +0000

Very useful post. Hudson and selenium are great tools that can simplify automated testing.

By: sohbet

sohbet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:04:13 +0000

thanks admin good post

By: Kumar McMillan

Kumar McMillan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:42:45 +0000

Hi. I have had a lot of luck using Hudson with Selenium. However, it was a little tricky to get servers to run Firefox headless and set up X Window frame buffers for the screen capturing.

Also, I see in the article and in comments the mention of setting up a database. I've found that I could remove the database simply for the purpose of testing the way the app works in the browser. In other words, a browser is only needed to test JavaScript. Otherwise you are wasting precious test time. Functional tests requiring a database are easier to do without a browser (HTTP get/post, etc, works on the command line). I gave a talk recently about how I approach Ajax testing:

http://farmdev.com/talks/test-ajax/
http://didenko.com/jschi/090226/

By: Kumar McMillan

Kumar McMillan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:42:00 +0000

Hi. I have had a lot of luck using Hudson with Selenium. However, it was a little tricky to get servers to run Firefox headless and set up X Window frame buffers for the screen capturing.Also, I see in the article and in comments the mention of setting up a database. I've found that I could remove the database simply for the purpose of testing the way the app works in the browser. In other words, a browser is only needed to test JavaScript. Otherwise you are wasting precious test time. Functional tests requiring a database are easier to do without a browser (HTTP get/post, etc, works on the command line). I gave a talk recently about how I approach Ajax testing: http://farmdev.com/talks/test-ajax/http://didenko.com/jschi/090226/

By: Scal

Scal — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:40:36 +0000

Selenium offers “Grid”, allowing you to run tests in parallel

By: tavibito

tavibito — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:53:12 +0000

Nice posting.
I believe with Selenium you can only validate the web pages.
I have been in a quest for an open source functional/regression testing tool that support loading, checking and unloading the state of the application database in addition to invoking and checking web pages but no luck so far. There seems some commercial tools that support this feature such as HP's Quick Test Professional .
Ensuring the web application insert/update the business data stored in the database correctly is the most critical issue.
Any helpful information would be appreciated.

By: tavibito

tavibito — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:53:00 +0000

Nice posting.I believe with Selenium you can only validate the web pages.I have been in a quest for an open source functional/regression testing tool that support loading, checking and unloading the state of the application database in addition to invoking and checking web pages but no luck so far. There seems some commercial tools that support this feature such as HP's Quick Test Professional .Ensuring the web application insert/update the business data stored in the database correctly is the most critical issue.Any helpful information would be appreciated.