Website Monitoring with Selenium

[Rob]

Hi, I'm a web dev tasked with replacing a costly website monitoring tool and Selenium seems to be a potential replacement. I should say that I'm totally new to Selenium.

I have successfully written several tests using Selenium IDE on Firefox. These are obviously available for export.

My question is is there a tool that:

• executes the tests on a periodic basis, either on the same machine or using nodes
  
• Report failures/passes

Essentially, I want to be able to create a tool that runs 24/7, has a GUI with running tests and informs me of failures.

Not sure where to start!

[Oscar Rieken]

why would you need to use selenium for this? there are several tools out there that allow you to monitor websites without the added cost of launching a browser. ( this is guessing that you just monitoring services and availability of your webapp)

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[Rob]

Hi, thanks for the response.

The website I want to monitor has around 10-20 people working on it during a typical week, which means multiple PHP, JS and HTML changes.

There are multiple products and user flows that need to be constantly tested, as merges to our codebase and live sites happen regularly.

Despite an extensive SIT and regression testing program, the site does encounter problems from time-to-time, as is to be expected with a large-scale website.

We currently use a tool like this: https://www.nccgroup.com/en/our-services/website-performance/ but our implementation is expensive and is difficult to get quick turn-around times with.
It seems that Selenium could be a potential open-source replacement for it. The Selenium IDE in particular is an attractive method for creating tests which typically take a long time with our current platform.

Essentially, I want be able to execute the tests created with Selenium IDE in an automated fashion and be able to identify failures quickly. The only other option maybe to write something from scratch to execute the Web Driver classes created that waits on a response and logs it.

[mark...@alertbot.com]

Hi Rob,

You may want to check out my company's monitoring solution AlertBot Website Monitoring. We get a constant flow of companies coming from NCC Group with the same issues. We have the same capabilities but are much lower cost and we usually turnaround script updates within 30-minutes.  Our transactional monitoring is based off of Selenium but our development team needed to do a lot of customization to make work better for website monitoring. Trying other lower cost and easier to use monitoring services might be a better option than building it yourself. With building it yourself you will lose testing from multiple locations so you'll lose that performance data and you'll get false-positive alerts from time-to-time.