How
To Run Selenium Script In Eclipse

Selenium:

          Selenium is a portable software
testing framework for web
applications Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests
without learning a test scripting language.
Selenium is an open
source tool for web application testing. This tool is primarily developed in
Java Script and browser technologies and hence supports all the major browsers
on all the platforms.

Selenium IDE:

            Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for
Selenium scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to
record, edit, and debug tests.

Selenium
Remote Control:

          Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write
automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP
website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.

Why
Selenium:

·        
Its Open source!!

·        
It’s easy to learn and implement.

·        
Supports multiple browsers.

·        
Supports multiple scripting/programming languages.

·        
Flexible to your choice, simple record and playback (IDE), Complex
Framework design to your choice by using your favorite programming language.

Here I would like to share how to run the
selenium script in Eclipse.

Steps
to run the selenium script in eclipse:

Step 1:
Download required components

1. Download Eclipse IDE: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

2. Download Selenium RC: http://seleniumhq.org/download/
3. Download JUnit: http://www.junit.org/

Step 2: Record and save the
java selenium script

·        
Open Firefox and enter the
URL to browse your application.

·        
Launch IDE from Tool menu.

·        
Record your script.

·        
Choose the programming
language as JAVA and save your script. To choose the language, go to
Option-> Clipboard format and select JUnit 3 (Remote Control).

·        
Now you have a java code. I
am making it simple and not covering scripting in detail. My motive is to share
you the end to end process of using this IDE and RC to run a simple test using
Eclipse. Rest you can change your script as per your need.

Step 3: Create a java project in Eclipse

The first step in eclipse
is to create a java project to do this follow the steps below

·        
Launch Eclipse.

·        
Click on File > New >
others > select java project.

·        
Enter the java project name
as FirstProject (for example).

·        
Click on finish button.

Step 4:  Add selenium
java client jar and JUnit library to your project

·        
Right
click the project and select the properties.

·        
Go
to java build path and select libraries tab.

·        
Click
add external jars.

·        
Browse
and add the selenium-java-client-driver.jar and junit4.jar from the source
where you had saved it.

Step 5: Initiating the Selenium Server

·        
Open
the command prompt and run the selenium RC by below command.

·        
D:\selenium-remote-control-1.0.3\selenium-server-1.0.3>
java -jar selenium-server.jar

·        
After entering that command, the selenium server will
start in your machine.

Step 6: Adding your test script in our Project

          To
add your test (which you have saved earlier) as a java class file to the
project (FirstProject, already saved) follow the below steps:

·        
In eclipse right click the project FirstProject
select new > class

·        
Enter the class name as MyFirstTest.

·        
Paste
the recorded code from the file you had saved it.

·        
Choose
"com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestCase" as its super class.

·        
Finish
it.

Step 7: Modifying your test script

          Once
you are done with your class file, it will look like,

Package.*

import
com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestCase ;

public class MyFirstTest extends
SeleneseTestCases {

      public void setUp() throws Exception {

            setUp( " http://www.google.com/
" , "*firefox”);

 }

//............ Your test
script..............

public void testUntitled() throws
Exception {

                   selenium.open("http://www.google.com/");

                   assertEquals("Google",
selenium.getTitle());

                   selenium.type("id=lst-ib",
"selenim");

                   selenium.click("name=btnG");

          }

}

In case you want to run this in
different browser then simply you can change your script.

setUp( "
http://www.google.com/ " , "*firefox”);  to setUp( "http://www.google.com/  " , "*chrome”); or whatever browser
you need to run.

Step 8: Running your test

Finally we are ready to run
our first test. To run this in eclipse you click on Run button. Select option
Run as "JUnit Test”.

Note: One thing I forgot to
mention that if you have eclipse with JRE version lower than 1.5 in build path,
it will show some error related to version not supporting. To resolve this you
have to remove the default Eclipse JRE and add JRE version 1.5 or more to System
Library in Build Path.

To add this follows the steps:

·        
Go
to Java Build path and select Libraries tab.

·        
Under
this select JRE system Library.

·        
Remove
your default one.

·        
Now
click on add Library and select JRE system Library and click next.

·        
Add
JRE.

·        
Now
add this JRE to your class path.

So finally I am done with your end
to end execution of java test script using selenium RC in Eclipse.