Creating a Selenium Test Case in Java from scratch

I you want to create a Selenium test case from scratch, i.e. not using the record method listed earlier in my blog, here is how you do it:

1. I assume you have Eclipse installed
2. I assume you have downloaded the Selenium RC
1. The files selenium-server.jar and selenium-java-client-driver.jar will be needed
3. In Eclipse create a new Java Project
1. Pick a name for the project, set anything else you think you'll need on the first page
2. On the next page, go to the Libraries tab and add the two selenium jar files to the project
3. Finish
4. Right click on the src folder and create a new JUnit Test Case
1. Select JUnit 3, pick a package if you want (can be changed later), pick a name, tick setUp and tearDown, click Finish
2. It should ask you if you want to add the JUnit 3 library to the project. Answer yes.
5. You should now be looking at the JUnit test case class in the editor
6. Change the class so it 'extends SeleneseTestCase
7. You should get a warning on the SeleneseTestCase
8. Hover over it and you should get the option to import com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestCase which you should do
9. In the setUp() method, the body should be:
1. super.setUp(url, browser); where url is the URL of you web site being tested and browser is something like "*firefox", "*iehta" or "*safari"
2. For example, super.setUp("http://www.google.ca", "*safari");
3. The setUp method should now look like:
   
   
   
   

   public void setUp() throws Exception {
           super.setUp("http://www.google.ca", "*safari");
       }
   
   

10. In the tearDown() method the body should be:
1. super.tearDown();
2. The tearDown method should now look like:
   
   
   
   

   public void tearDown() throws Exception {
           super.tearDown();
       }
   
   

11. Now we can add a test case. It might look like:

public void testAGoodDescriptionOfWhatWeAreTesting() throws Exception {
        selenium.open("/");
        System.out.println(selenium.getHtmlSource());
    }

12. To run this, you'll need to start the Selenium Server.
13. Go to a command line and enter:

java -jar selenium-server.jar

14. You might need some more command line switches like -firefoxProfileTemplate or -trustAllSSLCertificates. To see help on the server use:

java -jar selenium-server.jar -help

15. Once you have the server running, in Eclipse you want to run the test case as a JUnit Test

NOTE: the SeleneseTestCase is a JUnit 3 TestCase. It assumes the names of the methods are fixed and does not use annotations. You have to use setUp, tearDown and all test cases need to start with 'test'. If you want to create the same thing as JUnit 4 you can use:

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

public class Whatever {

 Selenium selenium;

 @Before
 public void setUp() throws Exception {
  selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://www.google.com");
 }

 @Test
 public void whatever() throws Exception {
  selenium.open("/");
  System.out.println(selenium.getHtmlSource());
 }

 @After
 public void tearDown() throws Exception {
  selenium.close();
  selenium.stop();
 }
}

And there is a simple test case create in Eclipse.