Installing PHP's Testing_Selenium on Windows

Earlier I blogged about setting up Selenium, PHPUnit et al on an Ubuntu machine.

Although I prefer to do web development on an Ubuntu machine, for 'legacy' reasons I still do some stuff on a Windows machine. For lighter web interface testing, a full CI tool like Hudson is overkill. Here's how to run Pear's Selenium_Testing alone (without PHPUnit) on Windows.

I assume you have PHP and the Pear installer on your Windows machine. Grab the Pear Selenium_Testing package with :

• pear install Testing_Selenium-0.4.3

Next download Selenium RC from here : http://seleniumhq.org/download/

Start a command window and go to where you unzipped your download. Start the Selenium RC server with this :

• C:\SeleniumRC\selenium-remote-control-1.0.3\selenium-server-1.0.3> java -jar selenium-server.jar

This assumes you have a Java 1.6 JRE on your Windows system.

When you start the Selenium RC server, you'll get feedback like this in the command window :


22:16:17.605 INFO - Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. 1.6.0_03-b05
22:16:17.605 INFO - OS: Windows XP 5.1 x86
22:16:17.605 INFO - v2.0 [a2], with Core v2.0 [a2]
22:16:17.839 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
22:16:17.839 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
22:16:17.839 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]


Here's a simple test you can try. Make sure you first install the Firefox screen capture tool at http://www.screengrab.org to capture screenshots :

start();
    $selenium->open("http://google.com");
    if ($selenium->getTitle() == 'Google') {
        print "Title equals Google\n";
    } else {
        print "Title is not Google\n";
    }
    $selenium->type("q", "luhman");
    $selenium->click("btnG");
    $selenium->waitForPageToLoad(3000);
    $selenium->captureEntirePageScreenshot('c:\tmp\screenCap.png', '');
    if ($selenium->isTextPresent('luhman.org')) {
        print "Found luhman.org \n";
    } else {
        print "Did not find luhman.org\n";
    }
    $selenium->stop();
} catch (Selenium_Exception $e) {
    echo $e;
}