Example - Running a Simple Selenium RC using htmlSuite via command prompt

Aim
Simple instructions on running an existing test suite against various browsers using Selenium RC

• chrome
• firefox
• internet explorer

Difficulty Level: Medium

Pre-requisites:

• Internet Connection
• Can access Wordpress.com and is familiar with How to works on Wordpress.com?
• Selenium RC is already installed
• PC should have Firefox, IE and Google Chrome browsers.

Key Steps
1.Create a folder in C dir having name Htmltestsuite
2.Copy and paste the testsuite/testcases from the blog to the same folder having same name in html.
3.Open command prompt
4.Run the commands listed under the Commands heading
5.See the Result.html

Commands

Command to run test suite on firefox browser

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" "C:\Htmltestsuite\Solution2Suite.html" "C:\Htmltestsuite\Result.html"

Command to run test suite on IE browser

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar -htmlSuite "*iehta" "http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" "C:\Htmltestsuite\Solution2Suite.html" "C:\Htmltestsuite\Result.html"

Command to run test suite on Google Chrome

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar -htmlSuite "*googlechrome" "http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" "C:\Htmltestsuite\Solution2Suite.html" "C:\Htmltestsuite\Result.html"

Zip file location: ( download from here)
C:\foundationSelenium\Htmltestsuite\testcase1.html, C:\foundationSelenium\Htmltestsuite\testcase2.html, C:\foundationSelenium\Htmltestsuite\testcase3.html, C:\foundationSelenium\Htmltestsuite\Solution2Suite.html, C:\foundationSelenium\Htmltestsuite\command.txt.

1. Save the below codes in HTML having Solution2Suite.html name in C:\Htmltestsuite dir.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" />
  <title>Test Suite</title>
</head>
<body>
<table id="suiteTable" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1" class="selenium"><tbody>
<tr><td><b>Test Suite</b></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="testcase1.html">testcase1</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="testcase2.html">testcase2</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="testcase3.html">testcase3</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

2. Save the below codes in HTML having testcase1.html name in C:\Htmltestsuite dir.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" />
<title>TestCase1</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">TestCase1</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
 <td>open</td>
 <td>/</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Log in</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Username</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Password</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=user_login</td>
 <td>admin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=user_pass</td>
 <td>time4test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=wp-submit</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
 <td>//div[@id='user_info']/p/a[2]</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

3. Save the below codes in HTML having testcase2.html name in C:\Htmltestsuite dir.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" />
<title>TestCase2</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">TestCase2</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Posts</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
 <td>//div[@id='wpbody-content']/div[3]/h2</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Add New</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=title</td>
 <td>MyPost</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=publish</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

4. Save the below codes in HTML having testcase3.html name in C:\Htmltestsuite dir.

<link rel="selenium.base" href="http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/">


<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">TestCase3</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Users</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Users</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>//li[@id='menu-users']/div[3]/ul/li[2]/a</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=user_login</td>
 <td>javascript{"Test" + new Date().getMilliseconds();}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=email</td>
 <td>javascript{"Test" + new Date().getMilliseconds()+"@gmail.com";}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=first_name</td>
 <td>TestFirst</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=last_name</td>
 <td>TestLast</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=url</td>
 <td>http://www.google.com/</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=pass1</td>
 <td>time2test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=pass2</td>
 <td>time2test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=addusersub</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Log Out</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

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