Selenium RC configuration for Java

Few months back, I was trying to run selenium script with Selenium RC Java. Initially I faced few issues to configure the classpath settings. We need to pass the proxy details, if the net connection is based on proxy. I created three batch scripts to run the server and client. You should have latest java version. For more info about Selenium RC, check out Selenium RC documentation .

Selenium Server to start with proxy
Here user can set the username and password for proxy connection. Checkout java options to do that.

REM ********************************************
REM To Run Selenium server
REM Author: Palani Selvam
REM ********************************************

REM Selenium server path
set SeleniumServer=D:\Selenium_trial\tool\selenium-remote-control-0.9.2\selenium-server-0.9.2

REM to run the Selenium server with proxy
d:
cd %SeleniumServer%
java -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.mycompany.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -jar selenium-server.jar 

Selenium Server to start without proxy
It will be useful for non-proxy connection.

REM ********************************************
REM To Run Selenium server
REM Author: Palani Selvam
REM ********************************************

REM Selenium server path
set SeleniumServer=D:\Selenium_trial\tool\selenium-remote-control-0.9.2\selenium-server-0.9.2

REM to run the Selenium server without proxy

d:
cd %SeleniumServer%
java -jar selenium-server.jar

To run the Selenium client
Below I have given the batch script to run the GetAllStockQuotes.java. Source code is available at Indian Stock Quotes through Selenium

REM ********************************************
REM To Run Selenium client (Java). Also sets path and classpath
REM Author: Palani Selvam
REM ********************************************

REM to set class path and path env variables to run selenium
set javaClientPath=D:\Selenium_trial\tool\selenium-remote-control-1.0.1\selenium-java-client-driver-1.0.1
Set javaClientJars=%javaClientPath%\selenium-java-client-driver.jar

REM JUnit jar
Set jUnitJars=D:\java\JUnit\junit46.jar

REM Selenium Script (Java) dir path
set Stockspath=D:\Selenium_trial

REM Setting classpath
set classpath=%classpath%;%javaClientJars%;%jUnitJars%;%Stockspath%\classes;

d:
cd %Stockspath%

REM Compiling test scripts Selenium-java code
javac -d classes GetAllStockQuotes.java

REM Running the test scripts
java junit.textui.TestRunner com.palani.tests.GetAllStockQuotes

For more details of Selenium tools configuration, you can refer 5 Minute Guide To Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote Control (Java) Test Tools

New release Silktest 2009 R2

Last week, I attended Microfocus webinar which is about the new features implemented in Silktest, Silkperformer and SilkCentral Test Manager. Silktest 2009 R2 was released on December 2009. I have given the silktest features below:

Features
Web 2.0/RIA suppot

• Ajax
• Adobe Flex
• Embedded browser controls (Win32, SWT, WinForms,WPF)

Standalone Recorder

• Improved usability through extensive script generation support

Agile enablement

• Eclipse Plugin
• Silk4j

Open agent technology

• Dynamic object recognition

Other Improvements

• WinForms
• IE 8.0 on classic agent
• Workflow integrations
• Open Agent Support for GUI-Level Testing

Additional Platform support

• Windows 7
• Windows 2008 Server

Both tools (Silktest and Silkperformer) look will be same in new versions and tried the same language. Have done many improvements for open agent. Microfocus has done many improvements to SilkCentral Test Manager. SCTM can integrate with many unit testing tools and few other type of tools like VersionOne and Rally etc.