Archive for December, 2008

How to run Selenium-RC in a virtual machine

A tale of VMWare vs VirtualPC
One issue that I have with selenium and running tests through IE is the little popup dialog saying “The web page you are viewing is trying to close the window. do you want to close this window?”
Our tests use openWindow and then close them frequently.
I wrote a little AutoIt […]

December 19th, 2008 | Posted in Tools | 3 Comments

Selenium and HTMLUnit - the abstraction layer

I once did an experiment to see how easy I could wrap HTMLUnit with  Selenium for automated software testing.
In my experiment I created a wrapper by extending the DefaultSelenium class and then using eclipse to create wrapper functions for all the methods. Then inject that HTMLUnitSelenium class into my abstraction layer and voila - your […]

December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Tools | 2 Comments