Need help to configure the latest serenity automation framework....

SeleniumWhat?

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Aug 10, 2017, 9:47:05 AM8/10/17

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Hi all,

Correct me if I'm wrong... John F. Smart has announced the new release of latest Serenity V1.5.4-rc.1 that will work with Cucumber 1.2.5 + Selenium Web driver (java) 3.4.0 + Firefox Browser 55.0 (?).

I'd like to upgrade my current (old) versions to the latest but I don't know how to setup a browser's web driver which uses Gecko driver with the Selenium Web driver. The current Serenity POM.xml I have is a pre-configured same project I down loaded from internet) and I do not know how John configured the Selenium Web driver so that It will take over the Firefox driver when the automation kicks off the bowser. I tried to find the code where this takes place but I'm not able to.

So... my questions are:

- Has anyone tried the latest versions that I mentioned above? If you have, would you please share your knowledge with us on how to configure the new selenium web driver 3.4 with Firefox 55.0 (and other browsers)?

- Is there a pre-packaged sample project(POM.xml, etc..) on the internet somewhere (Git, GitLab, etc...) that I can download and use without going through the configuration of Selenium web driver for each type of browser type?

- If the pre-packaged sample project does not exist, then would you please describe the steps of how to configure the Selenium Web Driver with the browser web driver when the automation starts? Do you happen to know where I can configure the Selenium Web Driver with a browser driver?

The current setup I have is within the POM.xml file where I can simply state what browser type I want to use. The details of how the Selenium Driver talks to a browser web driver is hidden and this is where I have trouble to understand. I do know that Serenity needs to capture the web driver so it can drive the actions. I do know how to configure the Selenium Web Driver with the browser web driver using Gecko, but I do not know how to pass the web Driver variable to Serenity. To be specific, I do not know how to assign the web driver to Serenity's "getDriver()"?

Any suggestion, tips, guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

Selenium_What?

SeleniumWhat?

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Aug 10, 2017, 11:34:31 AM8/10/17

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Further research into Serenity Version 1.2.2, I found that John or someone started incorporating Marionette Driver + Gecko Driver since this version?

I found this class" "firefoxDriverProvider.class" and this method:

@Override

public WebDriver newInstance() {

if (StepEventBus.getEventBus().webdriverCallsAreSuspended()) {

return new WebDriverStub();

}

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new FirefoxDriverCapabilities(environmentVariables).getCapabilities();

WebDriver driver = (shouldUseGeckoDriver()) ? newMarionetteDriver(capabilities) : newFirefoxDriver(capabilities);

driverProperties.registerCapabilities("firefox", capabilities);

return driver;

}

I'm not a Java pro, but it seems to me that the codes seems to initiates the Firefox Web Driver by looking up the desired web driver based on a specified value in some kind of "environment" configuration file? And then it returns the driver to Serenity? These code also suggests that the Gecko Driver and Marionette driver are also included in the pre-packaged dependencies library?

Thanks

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Selenium_What?

John Smart

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Aug 10, 2017, 3:20:09 PM8/10/17

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No change is needed in the test code, just place the latest geckodriver binary on your system path and Serenity will figure it out.

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Aug 10, 2017, 4:00:17 PM8/10/17

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Hi John,

Thanks for the instructions. I'll try it out.

It's great to get your response to my inquiry.

Who would think it is so simple :-)?

Regards,

J.N

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Aug 11, 2017, 1:58:18 PM8/11/17

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Hi All,

I was able to get it passed the Gecko driver part, but I got this error message:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(ZLjava/lang/String;J)V

at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Duration.<init>(Duration.java:41)

at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.DefaultTimeouts.<clinit>(DefaultTimeouts.java:12)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.defaultImplicitWait(WebDriverFacade.java:73)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.<init>(WebDriverFacade.java:59)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebdriverProxyFactory.proxyFor(WebdriverProxyFactory.java:58)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.ThucydidesWebdriverManager.newDriver(ThucydidesWebdriverManager.java:54)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.ThucydidesWebdriverManager.getThreadLocalWebDriver(ThucydidesWebdriverManager.java:163)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.ThucydidesWebdriverManager.getWebdriver(ThucydidesWebdriverManager.java:101)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.getDriver(Serenity.java:175)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.initializeWithNoStepListener(Serenity.java:93)

at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.newInstance(SerenityObjectFactory.java:68)

at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.cacheNewInstance(SerenityObjectFactory.java:51)

at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.getInstance(SerenityObjectFactory.java:41)

at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaStepDefinition.execute(JavaStepDefinition.java:38)

at cucumber.runtime.StepDefinitionMatch.runStep(StepDefinitionMatch.java:37)

at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runStep(Runtime.java:300)

at cucumber.runtime.model.StepContainer.runStep(StepContainer.java:44)

at cucumber.runtime.model.StepContainer.runSteps(StepContainer.java:39)

at cucumber.runtime.model.CucumberScenario.run(CucumberScenario.java:44)

at cucumber.runtime.model.CucumberFeature.run(CucumberFeature.java:165)

at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.run(Runtime.java:122)

at cucumber.api.cli.Main.run(Main.java:36)

at cucumber.api.cli.Main.main(Main.java:18)

at ✽.Given user navigates to Amazon "Home" website(/Users/john/workspace/Future Enhancement/src/test/resources/features/admin/user_management/user_Login_authentication/Futute_Enhancement.feature:10)

Did I miss some jar files?

Here is my POM.xml:

====================

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

<groupId>com.autoMap</groupId>

<artifactId>autoMap</artifactId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<name>Amazon Login Automation</name>

<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

<serenity.version>1.1.25-rc.4</serenity.version>

<serenity.cucumber.version>1.5.4</serenity.cucumber.version>

<cucumber.core.version>1.2.5</cucumber.core.version>

<selenium.java.webdriver.version>3.4.0</selenium.java.webdriver.version>

<selenium.server.version>3.4.0</selenium.server.version>

<google.guava.version>19.0</google.guava.version>

<webdriver.driver>firefox</webdriver.driver>

</properties>

<enabled>false</enabled>

</snapshots>

<id>central</id>

<name>bintray</name>

<url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url>

</repository>

</repositories>

<enabled>false</enabled>

</snapshots>

<id>central</id>

<name>bintray-plugins</name>

<url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url>

</pluginRepository>

</pluginRepositories>

<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>

<artifactId>serenity-core</artifactId>

<version>${serenity.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>

<artifactId>serenity-cucumber</artifactId>

<version>${serenity.cucumber.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

<version>${selenium.java.webdriver.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

<artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>

<version>${selenium.server.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>

<version>${cucumber.core.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>

<artifactId>guava </artifactId>

<version>${google.guava.version}</version>

</dependency>

<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.assertj</groupId>

<artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>com.googlecode.lambdaj</groupId>

<artifactId>lambdaj</artifactId>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>

<include>**/FutureLoginRunnerTestSuite.java</include>

</includes>

<webdriver.driver>${webdriver.driver}</webdriver.driver>

</systemPropertyVariables>

</configuration>

<goals>

<goal>integration-test</goal>

<goal>verify</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<groupId>net.serenity-bdd.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>serenity-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>${serenity.version}</version>

<id>serenity-reports</id>

<phase>post-integration-test</phase>

<goals>

<goal>aggregate</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

</project>

====================

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Selenium_What?

John Smart

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Aug 11, 2017, 2:06:28 PM8/11/17

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You should use the latest version of Serenity (and be running under Java 8). Latest version is 1.5.4-rc.2

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Aug 11, 2017, 2:15:37 PM8/11/17

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Hi John,

Thanks for the tip. I'm using Java8. I'll try 1.5.4-cr.2 as you recommended.

Regards,

Selenium_What?

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The error is a dependency conflict between Selenium 3.4 and Guava 19. Try using Guava 21 instead.

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(As well as Serenity 1.5.4-rc.2)

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Hi John,

Good news. It passed that error.

Bad news :-). I got a new error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.serenitybdd.core.pages.DefaultTimeouts

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.defaultImplicitWait(WebDriverFacade.java:79)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.<init>(WebDriverFacade.java:65)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebdriverProxyFactory.proxyFor(WebdriverProxyFactory.java:67)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.SerenityWebdriverManager.newDriver(SerenityWebdriverManager.java:64)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.SerenityWebdriverManager.instantiatedThreadLocalWebDriver(SerenityWebdriverManager.java:222)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.SerenityWebdriverManager.getWebdriver(SerenityWebdriverManager.java:110)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.ThucydidesWebDriverSupport.getDriver(ThucydidesWebDriverSupport.java:128)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.ThucydidesWebDriverSupport.getPages(ThucydidesWebDriverSupport.java:185)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.getPages(Serenity.java:185)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.getDefaultDependencyInjectors(Serenity.java:86)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.getDependencyInjectors(Serenity.java:77)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.resetDependencyInjectors(Serenity.java:70)

at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.done(Serenity.java:164)

at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.stop(SerenityObjectFactory.java:28)

at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaBackend.disposeWorld(JavaBackend.java:140)

at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.disposeBackendWorlds(Runtime.java:152)

at cucumber.runtime.model.CucumberScenario.run(CucumberScenario.java:48)

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Looks like a dependency conflict in your Maven dependencies. Try using the mvn dependency:tree command to look for conflicts

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Hi John,

Guava 21.0 does the trick but then I get this error message:

@Amazon-User-Login-Authentication

Scenario: Amazon User Login Authentication # /Users/john/workspace/Future Enhancement/src/test/resources/features/admin/user_management/user_Login_authentication/Futute_Enhancement.feature:9

Given user navigates to Amazon "Home" website # DefinitionSteps.user_navigates_to_Amazon_website(String)

net.thucydides.core.webdriver.UnsupportedDriverException: Could not instantiate class org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newDriverInstance(WebDriverFacade.java:152)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newProxyDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:139)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.getProxiedDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:109)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.openIgnoringHtmlUnitScriptErrors(WebDriverFacade.java:184)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.get(WebDriverFacade.java:179)

at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.openPageAtUrl(PageObject.java:827)

at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.open(PageObject.java:737)

at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.open(PageObject.java:725)

at auto.steps.serenity.EndUserSteps.navigates_to_page(EndUserSteps.java:50)

at auto.steps.serenity.EndUserSteps$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$7c8c1f0.CGLIB$navigates_to_page$0(<generated>)

at auto.steps.serenity.EndUserSteps$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$7c8c1f0$$FastClassByCGLIB$$f66f4302.invoke(<generated>)

at net.sf.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invokeSuper(MethodProxy.java:228)

at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepInterceptor.invokeMethod(StepInterceptor.java:395)

at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepInterceptor.executeTestStepMethod(StepInterceptor.java:380)

at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepInterceptor.runTestStep(StepInterceptor.java:355)

at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepInterceptor.testStepResult(StepInterceptor.java:132)

at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepInterceptor.intercept(StepInterceptor.java:61)

at auto.steps.serenity.EndUserSteps$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$7c8c1f0.navigates_to_page(<generated>)

at auto.steps.DefinitionSteps.user_navigates_to_Amazon_website(DefinitionSteps.java:19)

at ✽.Given user navigates to Amazon "Home" website(/Users/john/workspace/Future Enhancement/src/test/resources/features/admin/user_management/user_Login_authentication/Futute_Enhancement.feature:10)

Caused by: net.thucydides.core.webdriver.UnsupportedDriverException: Could not instantiate new WebDriver instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver (Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.

Build info: version: '3.4.0', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'

System info: host: 'Macbook.home', ip: 'fe80:0:0:0:106a:64a0:bab4:4158%en0', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.2', java.version: '1.8.0_101'

Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFactory.newWebdriverInstance(WebDriverFactory.java:135)

at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newDriverInstance(WebDriverFacade.java:148)