Launching Selenium test from bookmark?

Question

I have some Selenium IDE scripts for automating tasks (deploying to an internal server via it's web interface), and I want to have bookmarks to launch them.

Don't want go to Tools -> Selenium IDE -> search test -> launch test, just want to click a bookmark and let the script run.

How can I achieve this? Am I missing a point?

Don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm currently using Firefox (if I have to change browser for this, it wouldn't be a problem).

Thanks

Answer 1

Not sure whether you be able to run tests pressing on a bookmark as browser plugins are usually run with a key combo. And bookmark is URL. Well the main issue in your question how to associate bookmark with browser addon launching.

Well, I've investigated a lil bit workaround. Speaking about getting Selenium HTML Test Suites Running Automatically (i mean an alternative to bookmarks) some solutions are possible: solution 1:

1. Patch the Selenium server code to support HTML suites.
2. Build a script to execute your HTML test suites.
3. Build a script to read the suites’ output reports and consolidate the information for inclusion into your CC.NET report.

Setup details you can get here

Solution 2:

• Selenium IDE plugin for Firefox to create tests
• Java to run Selenium Server
• Selenium Server to run test suites
• Nant to generate reports for CruiseControl.NET
• CruiseControl.Net as a continuous integration engine

Setup details here

Hope this be useful for you.

Answer 2

Bookmarks are nothing else than URLs, which makes it impossible to "bookmark" a functionality of a plugin, such as the Selenium IDE.

However, there might be other plugins out there that do what you want. I haven't had a closer look at it, but one candidate could be the Favorites (Selenium IDE) Firefox Add-on.