run test scripts on three different browsers one after another?

[Ankita@Adslot]

Hi

Just wondering if there is a way I could automate my script to run on three different browsers one after another...

wanted something like

Open Browser1 - firefox
Run script
Close Browser
<output>
Open Browser2 - ie
Run script
Close Browser
<output>
OpenBrowser3- phantomjs
Run script
Close Browser
 <output>


I know we could initiate browser of our choice through command prompt and then run the script but just wondering if there is something which could automate the process rather then running the test manually 3 times with three different browsers?

[Dan]

Not sure what framework you're using or whatever, but you can do this pretty easy with a loop.  Below is the basic concept.

require 'watir-webdriver'

browsers = [:firefox,:chrome,:safari].each do |br|

b = Watir::Browser.new br

b.goto("google.com")

puts b.title

b.close

end

[Ankita@Adslot]

Hi Dan 

Thanks for your reply. This does work if the script runs without any failure, but, in case any failure happens script stops and does not execute on other browsers.

I wanted something where even if script fails on one browser, it still runs on others to complete the test.

Your help is much appreciated!

[Dan]

Not sure what you're considering a failure, but you'll want to use some exception handling in that case.  See below for an example.  :none is not a valid browser so, it'll fail to initialize it, but keep going with some exception handling.

require 'watir-webdriver'

browsers = [:none,:firefox,:chrome,:safari].each do |br|

begin

b = Watir::Browser.new br

b.goto("google.com")

puts b.title

b.close

rescue => e

puts e.message

next

end

end

[Oscar Rieken]

To me this doesn't sound like a good test I would probably do something more like

before do

   b = (ENV['BROWSER'] ||= 'firefox').downcase

  @browser = Watir::Browser.new b.to_sym

end

it "has the correct title" do

  @browser.goto "place"

  expect(@browser.title).to eql "something"

end

then just run it with

rspec BROWSER=chrome

rspec BROWSER=ie

rspec 

to me this makes more sense because , sorry if the code doesn't actually work did this from memory 

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[Dan Franko]

Yeah, that's why I stated I wasn't sure what they were considering a failure.

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[Ragavan Ambighananthan]

Ankita

currently i am trying https://github.com/90kts/watirgrid , this is originally developed for the same purpose as yours.

Regards

Ragavan

[Dan]

I'm pretty sure watirgrid is dead.  Your'e going to want to look at Grid2 from Selenium.  You don't need the grid just to run across different browsers though.

[Mihir Dhandhusaria]

I have a same problem. Please help me to correct it. I have put following code in my hook 

Before do

  browser = [:firefox,:chrome,:safari]

  browser.each do |browser|

  $browser = Watir::Browser.new browser

end

end

When i execute my code it opens all 3 browsers but it never executes my features. 

Is there anything i should be putting in to my hook file to execute my features in each browser one by one

Thanks

Mihir

Mihir Dhandhusaria
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