Selenium Webdriver remote setup

Question

I have the selenium-server-standalone.jar running on my local machine, and the tests I want to run compiled on my remote machine, but I have no idea how I make the tests connect to the machine that will run the browser. Any help appreciated.

Update: On my local machine (the one I will be running the browser on) I ran

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.25.0.jar -mode hub

on my remote machine (that I will run the tests from) I ran

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.25.0.jar -role webDriver -hub http://**My ip*:4444

my code contains the following:

 @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
            DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
            driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://**My ip**:4444/wd/hub"),  
            capability);
            baseUrl = "http://phy05:8080";
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            driver.manage().window().setSize(new Dimension(1920, 1080));

I am using Linux and my tests are written in Java

Answer 1

well. That's not a problem. I'd like to share how i resolved this issue. I got VM (virtual machine) with jdk installed and selenium server running on VM. VM has IP: 192.168.4.52 I connected to it through(RDC-remote desktop connection). Installed needed browser on it(firefox 15). Open browser. Disabled all the updates and other pop ups.

I've got selenium tests pack on my local machine. And I run them on my VM. Selenium setup is following:

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestBase;
import junit.framework.Assert;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.FluentWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Wait;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer;
import org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderUtils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;


public class BaseSeleniumTest extends SeleneseTestBase {
    static WebDriver driver;


    @Value("login.base.url")
    private String loginBaseUrl;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void firefoxSetUp() throws MalformedURLException {

//        DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

        driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://192.168.4.52:4444/wd/hub"), capability);


//        driver = new FirefoxDriver();  //for local check

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().window().setSize(new Dimension(1920, 1080));
    }
    @Before
    public void openFiretox() throws IOException {



        driver.get(propertyKeysLoader("login.base.url"));


    }


    @AfterClass
    public static void closeFirefox(){
        driver.quit();
    }

.....

this piece of code will run all the selenium tests on remote machine. in the string driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://192.168.4.52:4444/wd/hub"), capability); you simply should mention IP of your machine and this should work.

Hope this helps you.