How to Run a Selenium IDE Test Case using Selenium RC

Hi,

Is there any videos/Presentations/Documents which explains step by step procedure to run a Selenium IDE test Case using Selenium RC.

Note:

I am a fresher to Selenium and this would be my first test using Selenium RC, and hence I request you to provide me the baby steps please.

Thanks,
Raja Reddy

Are you able to get the Selenium server running? That should be your first step.

After you do that, you can run your script from the command line like this:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone.(version number).jar -htmlSuite "*iexplore" "www.google.com" "C:\path to your test suite" "C:\Path to results.html"

Hi,

I have tried to execute through Selenium RC through Eclipse. But I am getting an error stating

"java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not start Selenium session: Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium.start(DefaultSelenium.java:89)
at com.core.test_Selenium.setUp(test_Selenium.java:22)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:132)
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestCase.runBare(SeleneseTestCase.java:212)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:232)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:227)
at org.junit.internal.runners.OldTestClassRunner.run(OldTestClassRunner.java:76)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.throwAssertionFailureExceptionOrError(HttpCommandProcessor.java:97)
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.doCommand(HttpCommandProcessor.java:91)
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.getString(HttpCommandProcessor.java:262)
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.start(HttpCommandProcessor.java:223)
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium.start(DefaultSelenium.java:81)
... 16 more". Please find attached the screen shots and kindly help me out of this issue

Thanks,
Raja Reddy

As you are using eclipse, export your selenium IDE code to Junit4 RC format.
Get the selenium server from http://seleniumhq.org/download/
Also download java language driver
Open Eclipse
Create New Java Project
Create New Class.
Add Downloaded file as external jars to project.
Start server from command prompt eg - c:/java -jar selenium_server.jar
Now you are ready to execute your script with eclipse

Hi,

I have done the same....

once i did all that, i have started selenium server through "java -jar selenium-server.jar". and then I have executed in the eclipse using "Run as->Java Application". but still I got that error as I mentioned above in the Eclipse. So please help me out of this issue please.

Thanks,
Raja Reddy

Export the Selenese Code in SeleniumIDE... Installed Jar files in Eclips..

Start Selenium-server.jar

Run The Application

Hi,

Thank you Rohit for helping me all the time and thank you sivenathapandian.

I have done the same once again, but still getting the error. So please find the below mentioned codes and help me out of this issue.

( My Objective is I have to export the results to an Excel Sheet and I have to supply the input test data from excel sheet). So please if possible share me a sample working code which satisfies this requirement please.

Eclipse code(Junit4 Selenium RC):

package com.core;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
public class test_Selenium extends SeleneseTestCase
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
test_Selenium obj = new test_Selenium();
obj.setUp();
obj.testtest_Selenium();
obj.tearDown();
}

@Before
public void setUp()
{
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://www.gocurrency.com/");
selenium.start();
}

@Test
public void testtest_Selenium()
{
selenium.open("http://www.gocurrency.com/");
selenium.type("id=inV", "500");
selenium.select("id=from_dd", "label=Utd. Arab Emir. Di");
selenium.select("id=to_dd", "label=Indian Rupee");
selenium.click("id=conv_button");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
String a = selenium.getText("//div[@id='converter_results']/ul/li[3]");
System.out.println("value is " + a);
selenium.open("http://www.xe.com/");
selenium.type("id=amount", "500");
selenium.click("id=from_sc");
selenium.click("css=li.ac_even.ac_recent");
selenium.click("id=to_sc");
selenium.click("css=#to_scroller > li.ac_even.ac_recent");
selenium.click("css=input.uccGo");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
String b = selenium.getText("css=tr.uccResUnit > td");
System.out.println("value is " + b);
System.out.println(a);
System.out.println(b);
// selenium.gotoIf("storedVars['a']==storedVars['b']", "true");
// selenium.gotolabel("finish");
// selenium.label("true");
// selenium.label("finish");
}

@After
public void tearDown()
{
selenium.stop();
}

}

Selenium IDE code (HTML):

Variable comparision
open	http://www.gocurrency.com/
type	id=inV	500
select	id=from_dd	label=Utd. Arab Emir. Di
select	id=to_dd	label=Indian Rupee
clickAndWait	id=conv_button
storeText	//div[@id='converter_results']/ul/li[3]	a
echo	value is ${a}
open	http://www.xe.com/
type	id=amount	500
click	id=from_sc
click	css=li.ac_even.ac_recent
click	id=to_sc
click	css=#to_scroller > li.ac_even.ac_recent
clickAndWait	css=input.uccGo
storeText	css=tr.uccResUnit > td	b
echo	value is ${b}
echo	${a}
echo	${b}
gotoIf	storedVars['a']==storedVars['b']	true
getEval	alert("Not Matching")
gotolabel	finish
label	true
getEval	alert("Matching")
label	finish