This is regarding Selenium Automation Testing. I have a Jenkins job setup for some test executions.Jenkins is setup on a Ubuntu machine without GUI (CLI Only).
So when I run the scripts seems like it can't find the web browser obviously.
This job is working perfectly fine in windows. In Windows I get like this result.
Window Successful Result
-------------------------------------------------------
T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running TestSuite
06/08/2015 00:04:47,996 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:251) - ======BEGIN Test workflow============
06/08/2015 00:04:48,002 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:252) - BEGIN Test: MlpBvt
06/08/2015 00:04:48,002 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:253) - ======BEGIN Test workflow============
06/08/2015 00:04:58,862 DEBUG [main] (DefaultUIDriver.java:300) - Opened url: http://mlpdemo.qaprod.ecollege.com/
06/08/2015 00:04:58,912 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:296) - -------------BEGIN Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:04:58,913 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:297) - BEGIN Test Method: verifyAdminLogin
06/08/2015 00:04:58,913 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:298) - -------------BEGIN Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:04:58,969 DEBUG [main] (DefaultUIElement.java:980) - Waiting 60000ms for element to be displayed [Locator = {By.xpath: //input[@id='clientname']}]
06/08/2015 00:04:59,058 DEBUG [main] (DefaultUIElement.java:538) - Element is displayed [Locator = {By.xpath: //input[@id='clientname']}]
06/08/2015 00:04:59,059 DEBUG [main] (DefaultUIElement.java:992) - After 89ms, element is displayed [Locator = {By.xpath: //input[@id='clientname']}]
On Linux I get like this
-------------------------------------------------------
T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running TestSuite
06/08/2015 00:18:46,834 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:251) - ======BEGIN Test workflow============
06/08/2015 00:18:46,839 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:252) - BEGIN Test: MlpBvt
06/08/2015 00:18:46,839 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:253) - ======BEGIN Test workflow============
06/08/2015 00:18:46,998 DEBUG [main] (CapturePageOnFailureListener.java:186) - CapturePageOnFailure found 2 parameters
06/08/2015 00:18:47,002 WARN [main] (DebugUIDriver.java:311) - Called quit() on debugDriver containing null uiDriver
06/08/2015 00:18:47,025 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:304) - -------------END Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:18:47,026 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:305) - END Test Method: verifyAdminLogin
06/08/2015 00:18:47,026 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:306) - -------------END Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:18:47,031 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:304) - -------------END Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:18:47,032 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:305) - END Test Method: VerifyProfessorLogin
06/08/2015 00:18:47,032 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:306) - -------------END Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:18:47,036 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:304) - -------------END Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:18:47,036 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:305) - END Test Method: VerifyStudentLogin
06/08/2015 00:18:47,037 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:306) - -------------END Test Method-------------------
06/08/2015 00:18:47,038 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:283) - ======END Test workflow============
06/08/2015 00:18:47,038 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:284) - END Test: MlpBvt
06/08/2015 00:18:47,040 INFO [main] (BasicTestObject.java:285) - ======END Test workflow============
06/08/2015 00:18:47,100 DEBUG [main] (ProcessTool.java:36) - Getting current tool for LINUX
06/08/2015 00:18:47,100 WARN [main] (ProcessTool.java:40) - Could not find ProcessTool for LINUX
06/08/2015 00:18:47,101 WARN [main] (ProcessTool.java:88) - There was no ProcessTool for LINUX
06/08/2015 00:18:47,101 DEBUG [main] (ProcessTool.java:115) - process count for There was no ProcessTool for LINUX:1
Tests run: 12, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 11, Time elapsed: 1.976 sec <<< FAILURE!
Results :
Failed tests:
It is mentioned as
06/08/2015 00:18:47,002 WARN [main] (DebugUIDriver.java:311) - Called quit() on debugDriver containing null uiDriver
Please provide me some technical specialities regarding this matter. Can I run this job in linux ? Please help me out
Well for unix systems you have to use Xvfb to run tests in headless mode, for jenkins you can use xvfb plugin
Simple example how to open firefox in headless mode
from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb
from selenium import webdriver
xf = Xvfb() # xf = Xvfb(1920, 1080) - will create virtual display with 1920x1080 size
xf.start()
# browser won't appear
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://google.com")