I want to run Selenium test case file from command line

Question

I made then saved a test case with the Firefox extension "Selenium IDE".

Now I want to use command line to run this exported html file.

I try to follow this how-do-i-launch-the-selenium-ide-from-the-command-line-with-a-specific-test-case but it doesn't work.

Please help me.

Answer 1

To be able to run in Chrome browser, you can use *chrome option instead of *firefox like below

java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*chrome" "http://localhost" "C:\testsuite\testsuite.html" "C:\testsuite\results.html"

Other browsers list include:

*firefox
*mock
*firefoxproxy
*pifirefox
*chrome
*iexploreproxy
*iexplore
*firefox3
*safariproxy
*googlechrome
*konqueror
*firefox2
*safari
*piiexplore
*firefoxchrome
*opera
*iehta
*custom

on session null

Answer 2

1) Running from CMD

java -cp "C:\ProjectX\Mortgage\bin;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium2.49.1\*;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium-2.49.1\libs\*" org.testng.TestNG C:\ProjectX\Mortgage\testng.xml

Run above command in C:\ProjectX\Mortgage

2) Create batch file name runner.bat

SET projectLocation=C:\ProjectX\Mortgage
CD %projectLocation%
SET classpath=%projectLocation%\bin;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium-2.49.1\*;C:\Selenium_latest\selenium-2.49.1\libs\*
java org.testng.TestNG %projectLocation%\testng.xml
PAUSE

3) Run the batch file by double clicking on it.

Answer 3

You will need the Selenium RC which you can get from:
http://seleniumhq.org/download/

And Java 1.5 or higher (Download Java here)

1) Install Java
2) Unpack Selenium RC.
3) Open a cmd.exe window and go to the directory containing the Selenium Server (selenium-remote-control-1.0.1\selenium-server-1.0.1)
4) Run the command below:

java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://10.8.100.106" "C:\mytestsuite\mytestsuite.html" "C:\mytestsuite\results.html"

This should run your test suite in Firefox and write the results to the html file. Obviously you will need to change the "http://10.8.100.106" argument to your own server (this might just be localhost / 127.0.0.1)

Answer 4

Running test from CMD is quite easy.

Follow below steps

1- Go to home directory and Set class path

Home Directory > set classpath=Home Directory\bin; and press enter

Home Directory > set classpath=Home Directory\lib*; and press enter

2-Home-directory > java org,testng.TestNG testng.xml testng2.xml testng2.xml and hit enter

I have documented all steps here. Hope it will help. Cheers

Answer 5

It is possible to run individual test cases using Selenese Runner. You can specify a single test case file or a test suite as the unit to run.

Answer 6

If you want to run it from command prompt you may consider writing your selenium test in python. Make sure you have python installed if you are on windows. Mac will have python by default.

Answer 7

I have needed to do this before, and used the following:

1. An Ant Build (complex)
2. Creating a test runner class(a part of junit framework)class.

Most commonly we would run into build path errors while trying to run from cmd.

Answer 8

We should execute the SeleniumRC in using following command;

java -jar filename.jar

ex:

java -jar program1.jar

the program1 consist of the followings are:

1. program1.class file
2. Resource library file such as SeleniumRC Server.jar and Selenium Java client.jar file

This method is applicable for SeleniumRC execution. We can directly create the program1.jar file from eclipse using File->Export.

Answer 9

Here is an article that explains you step-by-step process of how to run Selenium RC application in Java.

Create a Java Selenium RC test script and executing the script