Evil Tester

There I am, figuring out how to debug my FitNesse automation from within eclipse. And up pops the Firefox ‘update failed dialog’ and interfering with my automation.

A bane and a pain when using Selenium RC. But with WebDriver there are easy ways round this.

Start firefox with a profile and set the "app.update.silent" firefox property to true.

The update error will still happen, but at least firefox won’t try and tell your automated processes about it.

profile.setPreference("app.update.silent", true);

For more details visit http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Preferences

Oh, and the FitNesse in unit tests is http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.RunningFromJunit

e.g.

      @Test
      public void runAFitNesseTest(){

            JUnitHelper helper = new JUnitHelper("./fitnesse",
                        new File(System.getProperty("System.java.io.tmpdir"), "fitnesse").getAbsolutePath());

            // type in the name of the test you want to debug here
            String testName = "FitNesse.AcceptanceTestSuite.ATestCase";

          try {
                  helper.assertTestPasses(testName);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                  e.printStackTrace();
            }
      }