Selenium Jenkins Integration

Medium detail overview of steps involved

Add appropriate packages to build slave:

sudo apt-get install xvfb          # virtual display
sudo apt-get install x11-apps      # installs xwd (for taking screenshots)
sudo apt-get install imagemagick   # for converting screenshots
sudo apt-get install firefox

Create xvfb launch script:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "`basename $0` {start|stop}"
    exit
fi

case "$1" in
    start) /usr/bin/Xvfb :5 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x8 &;;
    stop) killall Xvfb;;
esac

Set xvfb script to launch at startup:
```
sudo update-rc.d xvfb defaults 10
```

Install Selenium server on build slave:

wget http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar
sudo mkdir /var/lib/selenium
sudo mv selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar /var/lib/selenium
cd /var/lib/selenium
sudo ln -s selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar selenium-server.jar

Add Jenkins plugin (only if using Selenium directly rather than through Django test suite):

Configure "Exceute shell" job:

export DISPLAY=":5" && java -jar /path/to/selenium-server.jar -browserSessionReuse -htmlSuite *firefox "http://path/to/app" "/path/to/tests/suite.html" "/path/to/results/results.html"

    OR (since we have Django + Selenium integration)

./run_tests.sh --with-selenium

Configure post-build reporting in plugin:
- Depends on plugin...
Run a build!

Questions

Better to use the Django/Selenium integration as we have it now or generate a selenium test suite to be driven directly by Selenium + Jenkins?
Which plugin to use (if driving with Selenium directly).

Other useful info

http://centripetal.ca/blog/2011/02/07/getting-started-with-selenium-and-jenkins/

http://www.labelmedia.co.uk/blog/posts/setting-up-selenium-server-on-a-headless-jenkins-ci-build-machine.html

gabrielhurley/jenkins_selenium.rst

Selenium Jenkins Integration

Medium detail overview of steps involved

Questions

Other useful info