grails + selenium-rc plugin - cannot run sample test - grails

Question

I have no idea what I do wrong. I would like to use selenium-RC plugin for Grails to do some functional testing. I have created sample test using build-in script (i guess add-selenium-test), which generated (i modified it slighty):
import grails.plugins.selenium.*
import org.junit.*
import static org.junit.Assert.*
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*
#Mixin(SeleniumAware)
class FirstTestTests {
#Before void setUp() {
}
#After void tearDown() {
super.tearDown()
}
#Test void something() {
selenium.open "/activate"
assertTrue selenium.isTextPresent("activate")
}
}
I configured SeleniumConfig
selenium {
slow = false // true to run tests in slow resources mode
singleWindow = true // true for single window mode, false for multi-window mode
browser = "*firefox" // can include full path to executable, default value is *firefox or *iexplore on Windows
url = "http://localhost:8080" // the base URL for tests, defaults to Grails server url
defaultTimeout = 3000 // the timeout after which selenium commands will fail
windowMaximize = true // true to maximize browser on startup
screenshot {
dir = "./target/test-reports/screenshots" // directory where screenshots are placed relative to project root
onFail = true // true to capture screenshots on test failures
}
server {
host = "localhost" // the host the selenium server will run on
port = 4444 // the port the selenium server will run on
}
userExtensions = "" // path to user extensions javascript file
}
and I then I typed
grails test-app :selenium
and it seems that everything is done correctly:
INFO 19:30:08,304 RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:
4444/wd/hub org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer
Starting Selenium server on port 4444 ...
INFO 19:30:08,312 Version Jetty/5.1.x org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpServer
INFO 19:30:08,315 Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/d
river] org.openqa.jetty.util.Container
INFO 19:30:08,318 Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server] org.ope
nqa.jetty.util.Container
INFO 19:30:08,321 Started HttpContext[/,/] org.openqa.jetty.util.Container
INFO 19:30:08,326 Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler#55881a8f
org.openqa.jetty.util.Container
INFO 19:30:08,328 Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd] org.openqa.jetty.util.Container
INFO 19:30:08,338 Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444 org.openqa.jetty.http.S
ocketListener
INFO 19:30:08,340 Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.Server#42aefb01 org.openqa.jett
y.util.Container
Starting Selenium session for http://localhost:8080 ...
INFO 19:30:08,502 Checking Resource aliases org.openqa.jetty.util.Credential
INFO 19:30:08,510 Command request: getNewBrowserSession[*firefox, http://localho
st:8080, ] on session null org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHand
ler
INFO 19:30:08,512 creating new remote session org.openqa.selenium.server.Browser
SessionFactory
INFO 19:30:08,586 Allocated session 9250557308cc4886a25100eb6c5f3d7e for http://
localhost:8080, launching... org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory
INFO 19:30:08,717 Preparing Firefox profile... org.openqa.selenium.server.browse
rlaunchers.FirefoxChromeLauncher
INFO 19:30:11,726 Launching Firefox... org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunche
rs.FirefoxChromeLauncher
The firefox window is opened, but nothing loads and nothing seems to proceed. Do I miss something?

Answer 1

Sounds to me like an incompatibility between the Selenium RC plugin and the current version of your web browser. You might want to dig into the plugin's dependencies and update everything to the latest versions if you're using a newer version of the browser.
We see this with Geb ( http://www.gebish.org ) when trying to run a webdriver version that is not compatible with the driver version.

Answer 2

Just to add, if you use Chrome and your OS is Ubuntu, then make sure you put the full path to Chrome and make sure that the executable path references chromium-browser and NOT google-chrome.
So your SeleniumConfig should look like this with the relevant line in double asterisks:
selenium {
slow = false
singleWindow = true
**browser = "*googlechrome /usr/bin/chromium-browser"**
url = null
defaultTimeout = 60000
windowMaximize = false
screenshot {
dir = "./target/test-reports/screenshots"
onFail = false
}
server {
host = "localhost"
port = 4444
}
userExtensions = ""
}