Selenium (V)

Directory structure

_$: pwd
/home/jenkins/tests

_$: tree
.
├── firefox
│   ├── firefox
│   │   ├── ...
│   │   ├── firefox
│   │   ├── firefox-bin
│   └── firefox-24.6.0esr.tar.bz2
├── requirements.txt
├── selenium
│   ├── nosetest.xml
│   ├── test_admin.py
│   └── test_admin.pyc
├── selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar
├── unit
│   ├── nosetest.xml
│   ├── tests.py
│   └── tests.pyc
└── venv
    ├── ...

Installation

1) Desktop environment

a) Debian

_$: aptitude install xorg xfce4
_$: aptitude install Xvfb

b) Ubuntu

_$: apt-get install xvfb

2) Firefox

Download Firefox (ESR) and move it to /home/jenkins/tests/firefox/

_$: wget https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-24.6.0esr-SSL&os=linux64&lang=en-US -O firefox-24.6.0esr.tar.bz2
_$: mv firefox-24.6.0esr.tar.bz2 /home/jenkins/tests/firefox
_$: cd /home/jenkins/tests/firefox
_$: tar xvfj firefox-24.6.0esr.tar.bz2

_$: apt-get install libxrender1 libasound2 libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 libgtk2.0-0

3) Standalone server

If we are to use Selenium Webdriver Remote we need the Selenium server.

_$: wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.42/selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar

Desktop environment configuration

a) Classic

root@selenium_$: Xvfb :99 -ac
selenium@selenium_$: export DISPLAY=:99

b) Modern

selenium@selenium_$: export DISPLAY=:99
selenium@selenium_$: cd /home/selenium/firefox/firefox
selenium@selenium_$: xvfb-run ./firefox

Virtual environment configuration

root@selenium_$: aptitude install python-pip
root@selenium_$: pip install virtualenv
selenium@selenium_$: mkdir selenium
selenium@selenium_$: cd ./selenium
selenium@selenium_$: virtualenv venv
selenium@selenium_$: cd venv
selenium@selenium_$: source bin/activate
(venv)selenium@selenium_$: pip install selenium
(venv)selenium@selenium_$: python projectcom-test

As a script

#!/bin/bash -
Xvfb :99 -ac
export DISPLAY=:99
PYTHON_PATH="/home/selenium/venv/bin/python"

/bin/bash /home/selenium/venv/bin/activate && \
    $PYTHON_PATH /home/selenium/projectcom-test