Re: Using WWW::Selenium To Test Or Automate An Ajax Website

[runrig]

I just want to mention that (possibly due to having later version(s) of some component(s)) I did get WWW::Selenium working using just "*firefox" as the browser setting. I did create a custom firefox profile in c:/selenium/firefox (which is still necessary due to one of the server startup options below), and at first used "*custom firefox..." like you had, but every time I started the Selenium server and launched Firefox, I had to create an exception for the SSL certificate (even with -trustAllSSLCertificates, and for some reason, I could not get "*firefox" working at first). Then I went back to using "*firefox", and everything worked! The only slightly annoying thing is that everytime Firefox starts, I get the add-on popup window with the message "3 new add-ons have been installed" ... not sure how to suppress that...have been looking for likely suspects.

UPDATE: Actually, now I don't even need the -firefoxProfileTemplate or the -trustAllSSLCertificates options below, and I don't get the Add-on popup window. Also, I found the command to shutdown the Selenium RC server ('stop' only shuts Firefox down...do_command('shutDown') shuts the server down - and "do_command()" is undocumented AFAICT).

Update: shutDown changed to shutDownSeleniumServer in newer versions of Selenium.

I did add some options to the selenium server startup. Here is what the beginning of my program looks like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Selenium;

$ENV{PATH}="c:\\progra~1\\mozill~1;$ENV{PATH}";

# The first argument "1" is to make this run in the background
# and not block on Windows. You would of course do this
# differently on a *nix or other system.
system(1,
  "java", "-jar",
  "c:/selenium/seleni~1.0-b/seleni~1.0-b/se23ae~1.0-b/seleni~1.jar",
  "-firefoxProfileTemplate", "c:/selenium/firefox",
  "-trustAllSSLCertificates",
);

my $base = "https://xxxxx.xxxxx";
my $url = "$base/login/login.asp";

my $sel = WWW::Selenium->new(
  host => 'localhost',
  port => 4444,
  browser => "*firefox",
  # browser => '*custom firefox -no-remote -profile c:/selenium/firefo
+x',
  browser_url => $base,
);

$sel->start();
$sel->open($url);

#And at the end...
$sel->stop();
$sel->do_command('shutDownSeleniumServer');