using a remote Selenium server from Selenium test cases written in groovy

Question

I've used Selenium ide to record test cases, export them to Groovy source, modify as necessary and run them. The default code expects a server on localhost, I'd like to use a server on a remote machine. How can I do this? When looking at the doc for GroovySeleneseTestCase it does not appear there is a setUp() method that allows you to use a remote server. The only option I can think of is setting a server host and port through the default selenium object in my setUp() method but am not sure how to do this.

Answer 1

In Java:

HttpCommandProcessor processor = new HttpCommandProcessor("localhost", 3300, browserName, appBaseURL);

selenium = new CustomSelenium(processor, browserName, waitToLoadTimeout, waitForConditionTimeout);
selenium.start();

just replace localhost and 3300 by the server's address and the correct port. I don't know Groovy, but it shouldn't be much different. Of course, the server has to be started first and the firewall configured.

Answer 2

In order to get this to work I had to create a custom instance of GroovySelenium, assign it to the test class, and not call the super.setUp method. Code example follows.

void setUp(String selServer, int selPort, String browser, String basePath) throws Exception {
def tempSel=new DefaultSelenium(selServer, selPort, browser, basePath)
selenium= new GroovySelenium(tempSel)
selenium.start()
setDefaultTimeout(30000)
setCaptureScreenshotOnFailure(false)
}

Assuming you have this setup method in a class called MyTest, want to test google.com using a selenium server with host name myserver, port 5555, and using internet explorer as the browser the following code would work.

 test=New MyTest()
test.setUp("myserver",5555,"*iexplore","http://www.google.com")
test.testMyTest()