Running Selenium Tests in Virtual PC

Question

I am creating test scripts in Visual Studio IDE using Selenium RC and executing them thru NUnit. In order to run these tests on Virtual PC, what would I need to do.

What all would I need to have on the Virtual machines? Only NUnit or even Selenium?

If anybody has any experience setting this up and executing the test I would appreciate your feedback.

Thanks!

Answer 1

When setting up virtual machines all that you need is the browsers that you want to test with and Selenium RC. NUnit only needs to be on the machine that is running the test and not on every machine.

Then you make sure that your machines are always accessible by a name or a IP. If you can't gaurantee that then I suggest that you set up Selenium Grid. You don't need to run your tests in parallel with Grid you can also use it as an infrastructure tool to manage where the RC instances are. I have a tutorial here that explains how you can set it up.