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=The Journey=
=The Journey=
Check the category links for more info.  I am primarily interested in using Selenium with Python and there seems to be rather a dearth of examples and language specific references to be found.


==Useful References==
==Useful References==


* http://www.seleniumhq.org/
* http://www.seleniumwiki.com/
* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings
* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings
* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium
* http://jimmyg.org/blog/2009/getting-started-with-selenium-and-python.html
* http://jimmyg.org/blog/2009/getting-started-with-selenium-and-python.html
* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium


==Downlaods==
==Downloads==


* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list
* http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list
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* http://johnmudd.infogami.com/blog/5be6
* http://johnmudd.infogami.com/blog/5be6


==Setting Up==
==On Errors==
 
<pre>
Probably a path issue...
 
http://chibimagic.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/selenium-server-2-0-on-mac-os-xwindows-with-custom-firefox-path/
 
I usually run something like
 
strace -f -o /tmp/log.strace java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar
 
grep -i stat /tmp/log.strace
 
to track down file / path problems...
 
>
> Got all the required bits installed on my workstation (I think) - with
> Python 2.6.
>
> Got the following error when I ran the script I captured yesterday.
>
> $ ./eparcel_02.py
> E
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: test_eparcel02 (__main__.Eparcel02)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./eparcel_02.py", line 12, in setUp
>    self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/webdriver.py", line 46, in __init__
>    self.binary, timeout),
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 46, in __init__
>    self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 43, in launch_browser
>    self._start_from_profile_path(self.profile.path)
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 64, in
> _start_from_profile_path
>    Popen([self._start_cmd, "-silent"], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).wait()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
>    errread, errwrite)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
>    raise child_exception
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 1 test in 1.337s
>
> FAILED (errors=1)
>
>
> Standalone server is running in the background:
>
>  $ javaw -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar &
>
>  xxx    5780    2216  1  11:45:01
> /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin/javaw
>
> Maybe I need to start with a simpler example to make sure all the
> pre-requisites are working OK.
>
 
 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011 3:43 PM
> Subject: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings
>
> http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings
>
 


* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5198839/selenium-in-python


> The python bindings for Selenium 2 are now available. The bindings
==Using Cygwin==
> include the full functionality of Selenium 1 and 2 (WebDriver). The
> package currently supports the Remote, Firefox, Chrome and IE
> protocols natively.
>
> > note : Currently Selenium only supports Python 2.6 and Python 2.7
>
> Am using Python 2.6 on my workstation...
>
>
> > If using selenium 1, before attempting to run a test, be sure to
> download the Selenium Server jar file, and run it via
>
> >  java -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar
>
> I take it this would suffice:
>
>  $  javaw -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar &
>
> > in your terminal/cmd prompt, before attempting to run a test.
> > Selenium
> 2 however, does not require the jar file.
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Huh?  Is it spawned out of Python?
>
>
> xxx@xxx/d/arch/Selenium
> $ pip install selenium
> Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): selenium in
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg
> Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade):
> rdflib==3.1.0 in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (from selenium)
> Cleaning up...
>
> I installed from the Selenium-2.5.0 I downloaded yesterday.
>
>
>
> xxx@xxx /d/arch/Selenium
> $ !$
> ./tst.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./tst.py", line 6, in <module>
>    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/webdriver.py", line 46, in __init__
>    self.binary, timeout),
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 46, in __init__
>    self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 43, in launch_browser
>    self._start_from_profile_path(self.profile.path)
>  File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenium-2.5.0-py2.6.egg/selenium/we
> bd river/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 64, in
> _start_from_profile_path
>    Popen([self._start_cmd, "-silent"], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).wait()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
>    errread, errwrite)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
>    raise child_exception
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
>
> xxx@xxx /d/arch/Selenium
>
>
>  $ cat tst.py
>  #!/usr/bin/env python
>
>  from selenium import webdriver
>
>
>  driver = webdriver.Firefox()
>
>
> Looks like it cannot find Firefox...
>
>
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings
>


</pre>
* [[Setting up Selenium on Cygwin]]


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Latest revision as of 12:03, 4 January 2012

The Journey

Check the category links for more info. I am primarily interested in using Selenium with Python and there seems to be rather a dearth of examples and language specific references to be found.

Useful References

Downloads

Others

On Errors

Using Cygwin

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