{"id":1262,"date":"2013-04-17T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T07:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T07:44:30","slug":"running-tests-using-gocept-selenium-on-travis-ci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2013\/04\/17\/running-tests-using-gocept-selenium-on-travis-ci\/","title":{"rendered":"Running tests using gocept.selenium on Travis-CI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travis-ci.org\" target=\"_blank\">Travis-CI<\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0free hosted continuous integration platform for the open source community. It has a good integration with <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\" target=\"_blank\">Github<\/a>, so each push to a project runs the tests \u00a0of the project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/pypi.python.org\/pypi\/gocept.selenium\" target=\"_blank\">gocept.selenium<\/a>\u00a0is a python package our company has developed as a test-friendly Python API for <a href=\"http:\/\/seleniumhq.org\" target=\"_blank\">Selenium<\/a>\u00a0which allows to run tests in a browser.<\/p>\n<p>Travis-CI uses <a href=\"http:\/\/about.travis-ci.org\/docs\/user\/languages\/python\/\" target=\"_blank\">YML-Files<\/a>\u00a0to configure the test run.\u00a0I found only little documentation how to run Selenium tests on Travis-CI. But it is straight forward. The following YML file I took from a <a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/icemac\/icemac.addressbook\/src\/25b5bcab094d97b6803659396aa065ab7792415b\/.travis.yml?at=default\" target=\"_blank\">personal project of mine<\/a>.\u00a0(I simplified it a bit for this blog post.):<\/p>\n<p>[code]<br \/>\nlanguage: python<br \/>\npython:<br \/>\n  &#8211; 2.6<br \/>\nbefore_install:<br \/>\n  &#8211; &quot;export DISPLAY=:99.0&quot;<br \/>\n  &#8211; &quot;sh -e \/etc\/init.d\/xvfb start&quot;<br \/>\n  &#8211; &quot;wget <a href=\"http:\/\/selenium.googlecode.com\/files\/selenium-server-standalone-2.31.0.jar&#038;quot\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/selenium.googlecode.com\/files\/selenium-server-standalone-2.31.0.jar&#038;quot<\/a>;<br \/>\n  &#8211; &quot;java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.31.0.jar &amp;&quot;<br \/>\n  &#8211; &quot;export GOCEPT_SELENIUM_BROWSER=&#8217;*firefox&#8217;&quot;<br \/>\ninstall:<br \/>\n  &#8211; python bootstrap.py<br \/>\n  &#8211; bin\/buildout<br \/>\nscript:<br \/>\n  &#8211; bin\/test<br \/>\n[\/code]<\/p>\n<p>Explanation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lines 1 &#8211; 4: My project is a Python project which currently only runs on Python 2.6. But other Python versions will work as well.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height:16px;\">Lines 5, 6: Firefox needs a\u00a0running XServer, so we start it first as it takes some seconds to launch. See <a href=\"http:\/\/about.travis-ci.org\/docs\/user\/gui-and-headless-browsers\/#Using-xvfb-to-Run-Tests-That-Require-GUI-(e.g.-a-Web-browser)\" target=\"_blank\">Travis-CI documentation<\/a>, too.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height:16px;\">Lines \u00a07, 8: The Selenium server seems not to be installed by default, so get it and launch it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Line 9: Tell gocept.selenium to use Firefox to run the tests. (Note: To use the new Webdriver-API in the upcoming version 2 of gocept.selenium you have to set other <a href=\"http:\/\/pythonhosted.org\/gocept.selenium\/webdriver-upgrade.html\" target=\"_blank\">environment variables<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Lines 10 &#8211; 14: Install the project and run the tests as usual. (The example uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildout.org\" target=\"_blank\">zc.buildout<\/a>\u00a0to do this.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: Although I use the Firefox which is installed by default on the Travis-CI machine, I did not yet find out which version it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis-CI\u00a0is a\u00a0free hosted continuous integration platform for the open source community. It has a good integration with Github, so each push to a project runs the tests \u00a0of the project. gocept.selenium\u00a0is a python package our company has developed as a test-friendly Python API for Selenium\u00a0which allows to run tests in a browser. Travis-CI uses YML-Files\u00a0to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2013\/04\/17\/running-tests-using-gocept-selenium-on-travis-ci\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running tests using gocept.selenium on Travis-CI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15344399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10221],"tags":[1194,1789716,129379669,138059239,267260,832,111899,581,6,12],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFP3y-km","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":381,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2013\/01\/16\/news-from-the-toolbox-gocept-selenium-and-our-plans-for-its-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":1262,"position":0},"title":"News from the toolbox: gocept.selenium and our plans for its future","author":"","date":"January 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For a couple of years, we at gocept have been developing a Python library, gocept.selenium, whose goal it is to integrate testing web sites in real browsers with the Python unittest framework. 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