We have developed selenium webdriver script with junit+java using eclipse on window 7. All the scripts are working as expected now we are using this script for load testing using Jmeter. However, while running script system open multiple browser (200) based on user thread and it create system to hang, is there any way to handle this or we can run script without opening browser. I have come across xvfb tool, but not able to get java api for this tool to plugin in eclipse.
We have also tried using HtmlUnitDriver but as it does not support javascript hence the test is getting failed, also we tried HtmlUnit and found same thing.
Note: that we have writen webdriver script to maintain display item of element (autocomplete, image) on screen.
It would be great if anyone can help or provide more inputs on this...
Firstly, do not integrate selenium scripts with JMeter for load testing! It's not a good approach to follow due to the obvious consequences that you have mentioned in your post. I followed a similar apporach in the beginning when I was new to JMeter and selenium but suffered a great deal when it came to running load tests that spawned too many browser instances which killed the OS.
You can go for HtmlUnitDriver or any headless browser testing tools out there with JMeter, but still, they will be running the browser internally in the memory. Moreover if your application is heavily using Javascript, it won't help.
So I would suggest that you record a browsing session with JMeter Proxy and modify the script (set of requests) according to your needs and play those requests alone, with number of threads.
From a higher level, you should be doing this:
Add a JMeter test plan, listeners, thread group and setup JMeter proxy and record a browsing session where you enter something into the autocomplete textbox and you get certain results.
Stop your proxy and take a look at all the requests that come under your thread group.
As far as I know, when it comes to autocomplete plugins, multiple
requests are sent everytime you enter a letter into the textbox. For
example, for the word 'stackoverflow':
Request1: q=s Request2: q=st Request3: q=sta and so on
Here you can simulate this effect by including words such that all
words have the same length which in turn will let you have same
number of requests to be sent to the server.
So in your test plan, you will pass one word per Jmeter thread. You
can pass the words to a request, from a csv file by using jmeter
parametrization.
This will be a much memory efficient way of load testing instead of using selenium with JMeter. I had asked a similar question. You can check out the responses.
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I am connecting a standalone program to a website, and I have to read some pages of the website. For first, I used Jsoup, but with this I discovered that some informations that I need are loaded after page load, so I searched for webdrivers. (I am not looking for images or something big, my content are all textual)
Now, i found the ChromeDriver, but it is too slow for my case because it has a lot of options and features.
In my case I need just a step more than the Jsoup possibilities.
It is possible to disable the best part of ChromeDriver options and features to reach this goal?
For example, i saw plugin disabling, but is one by one and is not for every chrome browser on every pc. I didn't found an option like "plugin.disable-all".
Furthermore,in this way I cannot open more than a few instance of chromedriver. In this moment, every instance of the chromedriver is opening a Google Chrome Helper that uses 100Mb of ram.
Hope all is clear
HtmlUnit might be enough for your needs. It does support some Javascript.
It can be used with Webdriver. But might as well be enough on its own
To make your webdriver run faster (but not that much faster), you can run the driver in Headless mode. See these articles for a tutorial on how to go into Headless mode for Chrome.
Before starting the driver, add the --headless argument to ChromeOptions.
Headless mode can speed up your automation by not rendering the browser window, but keep in mind that doing a straight HTTP GET with JSoup would always be faster.
My advice would be to reverse engineer the page a bit more, and see if you can figure out how to query directly whatever the (presumably AJAX) calls are putting on the page. If you can treat those specific requests as an API and only query for exactly what you want, you will be able to get results faster than with browser automation through Selenium.
I want to be able to use Java to tell it to go to X url when X browser is open/running (my lingo is terrible). (Firefox/Chrome/IE is already up, and I want it to go from the default page to let's say Twitter.)
Most of the solutions are using java.awt.Desktop to launch native browser with a url in it, but that isn't useful if I want to change the url later on. (Already on Twitter-Home Page, but want to go to Twitter-Contact Us afterwards.)
The other solutions I've seen involve using Selenium WebDriver, but I also need to eventually learn how to basically force the Java to read a long list of URLs off an excel and simply verify that url isn't dead, and then do this on the Native Android browser, for example. So the Selenium might not be the right choice. Granted, you can also tell me this is an awesome choice for this too if it truly is. I haven't really been exploring Selenium.
Sorry for asking such a basic question. Company wants QA Automation without training/hiring an Automation QA. My end goal (aside not getting canned), is to see if I can get a bunch of urls to load on specific browsers. I can sort of (praying) be able to do stuff with it afterwards.
A simple trick would be to create an add-on( if you know javascript ) which will be quite similar in chrome and firefox (for IE I have no idea in my days it needed BHO) and send websocket commands from java to your addon. But this needs a java websocket server running where your addon will connect when the browser opens. Rest of communication can be carried upon the protocol lines of your requirements.
There are multiple parts to your question.
Read urls from excel.
Use Apache POI to do the same. Selenium code can use the same.
Check that the urls are not dead.
Use any java http client, (apache) to do that without even opening a browser. If the link is dead, it will be dead for all the browser.
Open the links in a multiple browsers.
Selenium is perfect for this. I am assuming that after the page is loaded you have way of validating that the page is correct. Selenium is very powerful here.
Target native android browser too.
I do not know of much difference between this and the previous question unless you are also testing site display based on browser size. The browser is more or less the same as chrome with webkit rendering engine.
For the project in my school I am creating a automation tool for the web with JAVA.
This tool should detect the user activity on web page, save it, and then run the result as Tests.
I found solution for the running part: I will use Selenium to run all the tests that I am automatically generating.
But I did not found how to detect user activity on the web, Selenium can do it?
The Idea is to check what element the user was clicked, hover, send keys...
There is a way do detect what element was clicked in the browser with pure JAVA? if not, there is some tool to check it?
Look at the Selenium IDE plugin for Firefox. It will help record your usage of a website. You can then reuse the scenario to perform your test.
Since the tests are actually made on the front-end, the tests are not tied to Java. Your back-end could be written in C# or PHP: the front-end user has no idea what's behind.
I want to write a browser automation script which can be used by others to perform their mundane tasks easily. For example, a script that will login to a site using provided credentials, select few products ( passed as parameter) and put them into the cart and checkout automatically.
I would like to keep the end-user installation easy and light. Don't want the end user (who is not tech-savy) to download and setup anything.
I had tried Selenium webdriver in Java for this. The script part works perfect for the requirement but asking the end user to install and set up JAVA, etc is not possible.
Would like to know if there is any simple way to achieve this. Preferably an open source solution, but not necessary. Goal is ease of setup and use for the end user.
Can anything similar be done for Android also?
I've had a whale of a time attempting to figure this out, considering the limited documentation that I can find outside of the API itself.
I have a liferay portlet that simply clicks on a button, pops up a form with a bunch of fields, and then submits that form.
I want to use Selenium (or really any automation tool that can do this with Liferay) to similuate 100-500 concurrent submissions.
Has anyone used Selenium with LifeRay in a similar manner?
Selenium is a good tool to test the correctness of you web system, NOT to test the permormace of this system. For Stress testing you should use another tool, like JMeter http://jmeter.apache.org/ . Or you can code test script with HtmlUnit http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/