If you own a Mac and want to get started with Selenium for Automated Testing of your web apps, then you’re already most of the way there. The Mac operating system already offers a number of baked in solutions and command line tools like Python, Ruby and Java.
June 2020 - this article is out of date - checkout my newer posts on Automated Testing
Get started with Selenium IDE and Firefox
Selenium IDE is a browser extension for Firefox Web Application & Automated Testing – Firefox & Selenium IDE"). It’s useful to use this to create test cases so install this first.
Download & Install Selenium Java Server
Now you just have to get the selenium standalone java server so type
mkdir selenium
cd selenium/
wget http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.24.1.jar
(or check the project page for the https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list latest Selenium Standalone Server
Start the Selenium Standalone Java Server
While you’re in Terminal open a new shell / terminal window and type
cd selenium/
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.24.1.jar
You’ll see some verbose scripting about the server starting and you can visit this URL to check the server status
http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub/static/resource/hub.html
Stop the Selenium Server
Copy and visit this URL in your browser
http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer
What have I said about Selenium?
- Basics of automated testing with Selenium IDE for Hugo
- Run your first Automated Test for Hugo with Selenium, Python and Chrome
- How to get started testing with Selenium Geckodriver and Python for Mac
- How to get started testing with Selenium Chromedriver and Python for Mac
- Continuous Integration for WordPress Jenkins Selenium Apache Ant
- 1 minute video - Isotope Visual Layouts WordPress plugin
- Can I get at WordPress code from inside a Selenium test?
- How to install Chromedriver for Mac OS X / Selenium / Python
- Get started with Selenium 2 for Mac OS X / Java
- How to install Selenium 2 for Mac OS X / Python
- Web Application Automated Testing - Firefox Selenium IDE
Read more from my blog for an introduction and quick tips on developing in Hugo or UCTD.
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