如何使用Jenkins / Maven进行硒测试？

Question

I set up Jenkins on my local machine running Ubuntu, pointed it at my jdk, and maven, created a job to run my Selenium tests and gave it the path to the pom.xml in the project, but when I try to run the job, it fails right away. The console output reads

Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/new job [new job] $ /usr/share/maven2/bin/mvn -f /pathto/pom.xml -Dtests=firefox_tests.xml -Dreceiver=myemail@myemail.com...You must specify at least one goal or lifecycle phase to perform build steps. The following list illustrates some commonly used build commands: mvn clean Deletes any build output (eg class files or JARs).mvn test...

I'm just not sure how to proceed. How can I get past this error and get my Selenium tests to run with Jenkins and Maven? Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you hooked the selenium test into the Maven lifecycle?

Normally selenium tests would be executed as part of the integration-test phase, which could be configured with a plugin configuration like below in your pom.xml

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <skip>${skip.selenium.tests}</skip>
        <parallel>none</parallel>
        <threadCount>1</threadCount>
        <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
        <disableXmlReport>true</disableXmlReport>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>runSeleniumTests</id>
            <phase>integration-test</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>integration-test</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

With this added to your pom (and all Selenium dependencies in place), you should be able to run the selenium tests with

mvn clean integration-test

And that is also the command you should specify in your CI server. Or if it just asks you for goals to execute, choose: 'clean integration-test'

Answer 2

According to your error and output, you are running it as:

mvn -f /pathto/pom.xml -Dtests=firefox_tests.xml -Dreceiver=myemail@myemail.com

So, there is no any goal what to build here. How are you running it manually? Probably forgotten to run as "mvn test -f ..." ?