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A fifteen minutes video shows how Selenium can be used interactively with a groovy console. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlfLfLuceWk

Required groovy files In the previous posting we defined the pom file that we need for our build environment. Now we will setup some groovy files to get selenium and groovy running interactively. ConsoleWaiter.groovy The idea of Groovy Console I found on some other sides. Honour goes for instance too: http://josefbetancourt.wordpress.com/tag/eclipse-2/ I copied some code of this, and put it under src/test/groovy/com/jankester/selenium/test/utils: package com.jankester.selenium.test.utils /** * File: ConsoleWaiter.groovy */ import groovy.lang.Binding; import groovy.ui.Console; /** * Provides a wrapper for the console. * * Based on source by John Green * Adapted from: http://www.oehive.org/files/ConsoleWaiter.groovy * Released under the Eclipse Public License * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * I added methods to allow use from Java. * * The run() method launches the console and causes this thread * to sleep until the console's window is closed.

The pom file A basic pom file that sets up all dependencies for your interactive selenium-groovy testing contains following: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.jankester.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-groovy-public</artifactId> <version>2012.03-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>selenium-groovy</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <project.selenium.version>2.20.0</project.selenium.version> <log.root>./target</log.root> </properties> <dependencies>

The problem Location of elements When I started using selenium, I noticed that it is not easy to do it right. First you start with IDE, but you notice, that the IDE does not really record a lot. In a next step I added firebug, and started analyzing how the elements where to be located: either by tag, id, class etc. Junit testcase With this information I could then create my junit testcase: @Test public void testMapView() throws Exception { //assert that we cannot see submenu of MapCreator elem = driver.findElement(By.className(SeleniumConstants.MAP_SUB_MENU)); String style = elem.getAttribute("style"); assertTrue("Element must have style display off.",style.matches("display: none.*")); logger.debug("Located element " + SeleniumConstants.MAP_SUB_MENU); //find menu and click on mapview elem = driver.findElement(By.id(SeleniumConstants.MAP_CONTROL)); actions.moveToElement(elem).click().perform(); //assert su

For some time I am trying to get more out of Selenium. Lot has changed here: selenium2 is a big improvement, and since 2.15 google also contributed its Advanced User Interactions API to the selenium code base, which seems to be a big improvement for mouse handling. To get a better understanding of what is happening, and especially why my test scripts are failing, I wanted to control the logging of my webdriver. I noticed that this was a bit of a pain. Selenium firefox driver is using java.util.logging. So you are bound to the mechanisms that java.util.logging offers you for log configuration. This is the approach I ended up with. Before I startup my Firefox Webdriver, I used the setLogLevel method to set the Level of logging that is used for all driver logs. When you set this to WARNING, all logs that the driver makes, are considered to be WARNING logs, when you set them to FINE, all logs are considered to be FINE logs. So dependent on the settings inside your logging.properties,