Run Selenium RC using Command Prompt

Downloading and Installing Selenium RC:

• Go to http://seleniumhq.org/download/.
• Under Selenium Server (formerly the Selenium RC Server) section you    can see the selenium server latest version.
• Click on download, it will be redirected to selenium server download page.
• Selenium server is a JAR file. Download selenium-server-standalone-2.ob3.jar.
• Create a Folder selenium in “C” drive.
• Paste the selenium-server-standalone-2.ob3.jar file in that folder.

Start  and Stop Selenium Server:

• We need to be able to start and stop the Selenium Server.
• We can do this at the command line:
• Start:  (Command line)
• java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b3.jar
• Stop: (Browser)
• http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer

Getting Started with Selenium/ Selenium RC steps:

• Record your test case using Selenium IDE
• Play your test case using selenium IDE itself to make sure that your test case works.
• Export your recording test case - as html file.
• Create a test suite.
• Run your exported html test case using selenium rc

Steps:

• Record a program using IDE:
• Create a folder in any drive – Ex: C:\tests

Create folders:

• We need to create two folders.
• 1.To save our test suite and test case. (tests)
• 2.To save results (results)
• Using Selenium IDE record a test case and save it as .html in a tests folder.
• Make sure your test run correctly.

Create a Test suite:

• Create a test suite and save it in C:\tests folder

Run your scripts using selenium RC:

• We can run our tests in any browser by using selenium RC.

Syntax:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b3.jar -htmlSuite "*browser" "http://www.example.com" "c:\naga\tests\run.html" "c:\naga\results\results1.html“

RUN THE ABOVE COMMAND FROM COMMAND PROMPT:

Run this command from selenium directory.

Example:

C:\selenium>java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*iexplore" "http://www.google.com" "c:\naga\tests\run.html“ "c:\naga\results\results1.html"

Selenium Test Runner:

Results: