So last week I got my code running on a home grid, but did not have time to explain what I did, so here goes… What is a grid and why would you use it? If you have pulled and run any of my tests, or tried building up something yourself, after the initial wow factor of watching a browser fire up and start doing things all by itself, you probably quite quickly got bored of having to stop pretty…
When tests don’t work…. One of those issues that I could very easily have missed. Over Christmas, in between working through CheckStyle hell I had a play around with adding Opera to the list of browsers available on my grid. I know its kind of pointless as being based on the same engine as Chrome, but it is one of my favourite browsers so I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve made a few incremental changes to my grid…
As I discussed in ‘Driver factory part 3 – Remotewebdrivers and my very own grid’ I found that it was pretty painless to set up a grid hub and node on a single Windows machine. Whilst the grid was itself perfectly stable, it is a bit of a pain to start up multiple command prompts and run individual nodes etc. There were two obvious improvements to this that I could try: Work out how to configure multiple browsers on a…
Apologies if you got a link to the incomplete first attempt at this post. This one is the real deal. It has long been my intention to look at adding multi-platform testing to my set-up, and finally I got my hands on a Mac to see if I could get it working. I am sure that I could easily have got a linux VM up and running in no time, but both my stats for this site, and from gs.statcounter.com…
Last time I discussed the differences in setting up a Mac as a node on a Selenium grid. That is not even half the battle however as I also need to get the supporting code in the framework and find out if I have to work around any differences in the WebDriver implementations. Back in January I wrote some tests checking that the framework was launching the correct browser and getting this working properly. I enjoy the challenge of writing…