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Selenium Tests with Maven and Selenide

Selenide is nice wrapper around selenium web driver allowing to simplify writting UI tests with Selenium.

Some of the cook features are:

  1. jquery-like selector syntax, e.g. $("div.myclass").is(Condition.visible)
  2. Automatic screenshots on assertion failure
  3. Easy starting Selenium WebDriver
  4. And others

So, let’s write some tests on selenide and make it run from maven in a normal browser or in headless mode.

First, let’s create 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">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.github.kpavlov</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenide-sample</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
        <selenium.hub.url>http://local.example.com:4444/wd/hub</selenium.hub.url>
        <holdBrowserOpen>false</holdBrowserOpen>
        <surefire.argLine>-Dbrowser=${browser} -Dselenide.holdBrowserOpen=${holdBrowserOpen}</surefire.argLine>
    </properties>

    <prerequisites>
        <maven>3.3</maven>
    </prerequisites>

    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>firefox</id>
            <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
            </activation>
            <properties>
                <browser>firefox</browser>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>chrome</id>
            <properties>
                <browser>chrome</browser>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>phantomjs</id>
            <properties>
                <browser>phantomjs</browser>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>ie</id>
            <properties>
                <browser>ie</browser>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>htmlunit</id>
            <properties>
                <browser>htmlunit</browser>
            </properties>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
                    <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
                    <version>LATEST</version>
                    <scope>test</scope>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>ci-server</id>
            <properties>
                <surefire.argLine>-Dremote=${selenium.hub.url} -Dbrowser=${browser}</surefire.argLine>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>local</id>
            <properties>
                <holdBrowserOpen>true</holdBrowserOpen>
            </properties>
        </profile>
    </profiles>

    <build>
        <defaultGoal>clean test</defaultGoal>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.19.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <argLine>${surefire.argLine}</argLine>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
    </build>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.13</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.codeborne</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenide</artifactId>
            <version>3.5.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

Notice the properties:

  1. surefire.argLine – defines a command line parameters for running tests.
  2. browser – specifies a browser to use.
  3. selenium.hub.url – URL where selenium hub is running, for tests with remote web driver, e.g. on CI server.
  4. holdBrowserOpen – should the browser be closed after tests.

Also there are a fistful of profiles to use as a shortcuts, e.g.

  • mvn clean test -Pphantomjs – run tests locally with phantomjs headless browser. Requires phantomjs to be installed
  • mvn clean test -Pfirefox,local – run tests locally with Firefox and leaves a browser open after tests
  • mvn clean test -Pci-server,chrome – run tests on selenium hub with Chrome

You may find working example in my GitHub repository.