ANN: Selenium RC Plugin

[Robert Fletcher]

Hi all

I've just released the first version of the Selenium RC plugin. The
plugin allows you to write Selenium tests in Groovy to functionally
test Grails apps using a real browser. The tests run in the functional
phase using `grails test-app` or `grails test-app -functional`.

I've tested with Linux, OSX and WinXP OSs and Firefox, Safari, IE6 &
7, Opera and Google Chrome browsers and they all work correctly apart
from Firefox 3.5 on OSX Snow Leopard (caused by an open bug on
Selenium itself). There's more information on browser compatibility on
the documentation page.

You can also write you Selenium tests using Spock if you like by
installing the Spock plugin alongside Selenium RC.

Install: `grails install-plugin selenium-rc`
Documentation: http://grails.org/plugin/selenium-rc
Source Code: http://github.com/robfletcher/grails-selenium-rc
JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS/component/14229

For anyone interested I'll be doing a short talk about testing with
the plugin at GGUG in London on 20th Nov.

I'm just ironing out some formatting issues on the documentation page
so if anything's a little illegible at the moment please bear with me.

Cheers,
Rob

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[Luke Daley]

Awesome work Rob.

Loving the Spock integration.

On 06/11/2009, at 6:45 AM, Robert Fletcher wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've just released the first version of the Selenium RC plugin. The
> plugin allows you to write Selenium tests in Groovy to functionally
> test Grails apps using a real browser. The tests run in the functional
> phase using `grails test-app` or `grails test-app -functional`.
>
> I've tested with Linux, OSX and WinXP OSs and Firefox, Safari, IE6 &
> 7, Opera and Google Chrome browsers and they all work correctly apart
> from Firefox 3.5 on OSX Snow Leopard (caused by an open bug on
> Selenium itself). There's more information on browser compatibility on
> the documentation page.
>
> You can also write you Selenium tests using Spock if you like by
> installing the Spock plugin alongside Selenium RC.
>
> Install: `grails install-plugin selenium-rc`
> Documentation: http://grails.org/plugin/selenium-rc
> Source Code: http://github.com/robfletcher/grails-selenium-rc
> JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS/component/14229
>
> For anyone interested I'll be doing a short talk about testing with
> the plugin at GGUG in London on 20th Nov.
>
> I'm just ironing out some formatting issues on the documentation page
> so if anything's a little illegible at the moment please bear with me.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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[j pimmel]

To those who have more than 1 type of functional test, and who want the option to run functional tests by type, in our case webtests and selenium-rc you will need to add the following to your Events.groovy project script

eventTestPhasesStart = {
    switch (GrailsUtil.environment) {
        case 'webtest':
            functionalTests.remove('selenium')
            break
        case 'selenium':
            functionalTests.remove('webtest')
            break
    }
}

This is particularly useful when you are still writing the tests, since you might have some same named tests in each type (in our case because we're switching a whole bunch of more JQuery heavy tests to selenium) and it gets very annoying to spend time watching an irrelevant Webtest running when you're trying to finish a selenium test

J

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Luke Daley <ld@...> wrote:

Awesome work Rob.

Loving the Spock integration.

On 06/11/2009, at 6:45 AM, Robert Fletcher wrote:

Hi all

I've just released the first version of the Selenium RC plugin. The
plugin allows you to write Selenium tests in Groovy to functionally
test Grails apps using a real browser. The tests run in the functional
phase using `grails test-app` or `grails test-app -functional`.

I've tested with Linux, OSX and WinXP OSs and Firefox, Safari, IE6 &
7, Opera and Google Chrome browsers and they all work correctly apart
from Firefox 3.5 on OSX Snow Leopard (caused by an open bug on
Selenium itself). There's more information on browser compatibility on
the documentation page.

You can also write you Selenium tests using Spock if you like by
installing the Spock plugin alongside Selenium RC.

Install: `grails install-plugin selenium-rc`
Documentation: http://grails.org/plugin/selenium-rc
Source Code: http://github.com/robfletcher/grails-selenium-rc
JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS/component/14229

For anyone interested I'll be doing a short talk about testing with
the plugin at GGUG in London on 20th Nov.

I'm just ironing out some formatting issues on the documentation page
so if anything's a little illegible at the moment please bear with me.

Cheers,
Rob

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[Robert Fletcher]

IIRC Luke said he was working one something like that for the Grails core.

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[Luke Daley]

There is currently no way to target test types.

I am not sure how this is going to work, but maybe something like…

grails test-app --functional.selenium

Hopefully will make it into 1.2

On 08/11/2009, at 12:27 PM, j pimmel wrote:

To those who have more than 1 type of functional test, and who want the option to run functional tests by type, in our case webtests and selenium-rc you will need to add the following to your Events.groovy project script

eventTestPhasesStart = {
    switch (GrailsUtil.environment) {
        case 'webtest':
            functionalTests.remove('selenium')
            break
        case 'selenium':
            functionalTests.remove('webtest')
            break
    }
}

This is particularly useful when you are still writing the tests, since you might have some same named tests in each type (in our case because we're switching a whole bunch of more JQuery heavy tests to selenium) and it gets very annoying to spend time watching an irrelevant Webtest running when you're trying to finish a selenium test

J

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Luke Daley <ld@...> wrote:

Awesome work Rob.

Loving the Spock integration.

On 06/11/2009, at 6:45 AM, Robert Fletcher wrote:

Hi all

I've just released the first version of the Selenium RC plugin. The
plugin allows you to write Selenium tests in Groovy to functionally
test Grails apps using a real browser. The tests run in the functional
phase using `grails test-app` or `grails test-app -functional`.

I've tested with Linux, OSX and WinXP OSs and Firefox, Safari, IE6 &
7, Opera and Google Chrome browsers and they all work correctly apart
from Firefox 3.5 on OSX Snow Leopard (caused by an open bug on
Selenium itself). There's more information on browser compatibility on
the documentation page.

You can also write you Selenium tests using Spock if you like by
installing the Spock plugin alongside Selenium RC.

Install: `grails install-plugin selenium-rc`
Documentation: http://grails.org/plugin/selenium-rc
Source Code: http://github.com/robfletcher/grails-selenium-rc
JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS/component/14229

For anyone interested I'll be doing a short talk about testing with
the plugin at GGUG in London on 20th Nov.

I'm just ironing out some formatting issues on the documentation page
so if anything's a little illegible at the moment please bear with me.

Cheers,
Rob

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[Robert Fletcher]

I just released version 0.1.1 of Selenium RC. There are a couple of
bug fixes and the added ability to use (assert|verify|waitFor)Not*
when extending GrailsSeleneseTestCase.

Cheers,
Rob

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