Selenium RC Writing Selenium Tests

Last updated by fletcherr 2 years ago

Writing Selenium Tests

Selenium tests should be placed under the test/selenium directory. As with other test types you can use packages to group your tests if you wish.

You should not extend any of the base test classes in the Selenium API such as SeleneseTestCase or GroovySeleneseTestCase as these tests will attempt to create a separate Selenium instance (and open another browser window) for every single test! The plugin starts a Selenium instance for you when grails test-app runs the functional test phase. Your tests simply need to connect to that running Selenium instance.

There are several options available for writing Selenium tests:

1. Using The SeleniumTest Mixin
2. Extending GrailsSeleniumTestCase
3. Using The Page Object Pattern

You are not limited to writing Selenium tests as JUnit test cases.

1. Using Other Testing Frameworks