Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. XWiki uses Selenium for their integration testing. While I am learning how to write selenium tests I have learnt several things. Hope it would help others some times to blog here. XWiki mailing list and IRC helped me a lot to solve issues I faced. :)

I have started with Writing Selenium Tests For XWiki tutorial.

I wrote a test, com.xpn.xwiki.it.selenium.LoginObservationTest for the JIRA issue XWiki-3697.

After writing the test case, For first time run, I went to /enterprise/distribution-test/selenium-tests directory and run the following command as in tutorial

mvn install -Dpattern=LoginObservationTest

It showed an error saying

java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox couldn't be found in the path!
Please add the directory containing 'firefox-bin' to your PATH environment
variable, or explicitly specify a path to Firefox like this:
*firefox /blah/blah/firefox-bin

The problem is that by default Ubuntu used Firefox 3. Here are the use ful steps to run your XWiki selenium tests with FF3.

• Add your FF3 path to $PATH, if this does not work only change the pom.xml browser path to

  <browser>*firefox /path/to/firefox3/firefox-bin</browser>

• change pom.xml selenium-maven-plugin version to

  <version>1.0-rc-2</version>

• Enjoy running selenium tests with FF3. :)