Terse/Silent Failures Running Selenium Builder Jenkins Plugin

[Emma Humphries]

Hello, 

We are attempting to use Selenium Builder for testing in Jenkins, but so far we are getting nowhere.

We have a collection of tests written using the Selenium Builder plugin for Firefox. 

Those tests have been added to the repository for the project, and we've added a series of Jenkins tasks that check out a branch on merge, builds and launches the war (this is a Java project running on Tomcat,) and then attempts to run our test suite.

We use https://github.com/jenkinsci/selenium-builder-plugin to run tests in Jenkins.

In the Selenium Builder task, the only configuration available is the path to the test, so we put in "src/tests/selenium/TestSuite.json" the relative path from the repository root to the suite.

When the task runs, we get as far as:

Starting to run selenium builder command

Error running selenium builder command

Build step 'Invoke Selenium Builder script' marked build as failure

Publishing Selenium report...

Build did not succeed and the project is configured to only push after a successful build, so no pushing will occur.

Finished: FAILURE

Searching for further documentation has not been fruitful. It's unclear where the plugin expects the Selenium server to be or even what browser to launch. 

If you have references to documentation, HOWTOs, useful blog posts, or experience running this setup, please let me know. 

Thank you.

Emma C. Humphries

[Jim Priest]

Did you ever get this resolved?

I have similar problems since I updated Firefox on my Jenkins box.

Now my tests fire off and hang at

Initialising driver.

Error running selenium builder command

I'm going to post something to the plugin page as well.

Jim

[Emma Humphries]

> On Feb 23, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Jim Priest <pri...@thecrumb.com> wrote:
>
> Did you ever get this resolved?

No I did not. Please let us know if you learn anything from the plug-in’s developers!

Thanks.

— Emma

[Wimpie Vermaak]

Hi Emma,

I am wondering if you managed to get the problem resolved?

I had the same issue and after making sure that Java is installed on the system, making sure that Selenium server is running, I had a look at the Jenkins error logs to find out that the path specified was not correct.

I hope this helps.

Wimpie Vermaak