Hi Tariq,

I have been using slenium RC for couple of weeks and now came across Selenium Grid. I have set up the grid successfully and the demo is working fine. I could not find documentation regarding linking grid with our already created testsuite.html. Can some one help me in this.

In theory you could build on Selenium Remote Control htmlSuite support to achieve this (http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/selenese.html). In practice I have not implemented a distributed test runner for html suites as these suites can become hard and cumbersome to maintain. I prefer writing the Selenium Test in Java/Ruby/Python... This said I will had support for html testsuites at one point, but probably not for the next release.

Cheers,

Philippe Hanrigou

http://ph7spot.com

Hi Dave,

Just wondering if you have any more of an idea as to when you may implement support for Selenese. We have many html suites and they have worked well for us. We > have automated our process using ant and luntbuild (and a few bat scripts) and have a framework that works well for us so we don't really want to change things now.

Yes I have this on my radar and will implement it at one point. Realistically though this probably will not happen before 2 or 3 months unless somebody contributes a solution. I want to make sure that I provide more advanced grid management capabilities first (starting, stopping and restarting the remote controls through the console for instance). I expect the type of users that will want to run a HTML test suite on Selenium Grid to also be the type of users that do not want to mess up too much with the infrastructure and write their own automation

Selenium Grid really seems like the next logical step (as our suites take several hours to run in sequence). As I mentioned I don't really want to have to change our

entire automated framework in order to be able to plug into Grid, I would really like to just be able point our test suites to the grid.

This a very common and valid scenario. My plan is definitely to support this. Writing a HTML test runner is pretty trivial, but you also need to provide helpful report and insight on what is going on and why a test fails, which is less trivial. I would advise you to wait a couple on months / or convince somebody to contribute a solution if you cannot wait that long...

Just checking in to see if there are any plans to implement this anytime soon as it would be extremely helpful, I have gone through the grid demo and am extremely > anxious to implement it in our real world environment. Thanks for your time.

Thank you for your interest in Selenium Grid. Just give me a little bit of time

Philippe Hanrigou

http://ph7spot.com

Hi Philippe.

I'm in the situation where the client needs this yesterday. The setup here looks like:

- maven web app with the main application

- a second web app with Selenium Core + HTML tests recorded with Selenium IDE

This is deployed on all developers machines (under the same domain - no XSS issue here essentially) and they are supposed to make sure all browser pass all tests before commiting. This is almost in place for JSUnit tests were the developer points his/her browser to a TestConductor (Grid Hub), submits aURL to where the testWebApp is deployt at the development machine and then waits a minute or two. During this time the TestConductor directs TestTargets (RC-similar) to run tests om the developer's machine and results are posted back to (and summarized) on the TestConductor.

I was hoping it'd be a nobrainer to have the same thing set up and working for Selenium. Apparently, there's a piece missing - then one you're working on (hopefully :). I'd like to know if there's work in progress, if it's thought thru but not in code yet, or if there are design issue not resolved yet.

Converting the HTML tests to something else is not an option since there's a non-programmer test QA department that needs to contribute and maintain tests.

/ Fredrik

Just want to voice support for a parrallel test runner for HTML suites.  that would helpful to me indeed.  thanks!

Hi,

I'm a total newbie with Selenium, especially Grid, so I might just be shooting in the dark here, but I'm in a similar situation in terms of what I'd like to achieve. From a quick look at HTMLauncher, it appears as if it requires the suite files to be hosted within the same server that runs the tests, but how should that work with Selenium Grid where I talk to the hub not an actual RC? My initial thought for a simple solution was to parse the Selenese files myself and pass the commands into an HttpCommandProcessor. 

I've mocked up a quick and dirty Groovy script for that purpose, and it seems to work fine. The only problem I have is that it chokes on the "store" command (I'm using Grid 1.0.1). The very same Selenese script runs fine in IDE 1.0b2. Am I using two different versions of core here, or am I missing something fundamental about how Selenese is interpreted? I was hoping that I can just blindly pass all the commands into a CommandProcessor and not worry about any semantics. I would greatly appreciate any feedback from someone with a better understanding of the internals of Selenium.

Regards,

Volker

Hi Volker,

I've mocked up a quick and dirty Groovy script for that purpose, and it seems to work fine. The only problem I have is that it chokes on the "store" command (I'm using Grid 1.0.1).

The problem is that most Selenium client drivers do not implement the store command: it does not make sense when you are writing tests in a real programming language, which does support variables natively.

Good Luck,

- Philippe hanrigou

  http://ph7spot.com

All, please note http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SRC-517 which I submitted which includes two initial implementations for things that could probably be used to run HTML tests against the Grid.