Selenium RC: Run tests in multiple browsers automatically

Question

So, I've started to create some Ruby unit tests that use Selenium RC to test my web app directly in the browser. I'm using the Selenum-Client for ruby. I've created a base class for all my other selenium tests to inherit from.

This creates numerous SeleniumDriver instances and all the methods that are missing are called on each instance. This essentially runs the tests in parallel.

How have other people automated this?

This is my implementation:

class SeleniumTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def setup
    @seleniums = %w(*firefox *iexplore).map do |browser|
      puts 'creating browser ' + browser
      Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new("localhost", 4444, browser, "http://localhost:3003", 10000)
    end

    start
    open start_address
  end

  def teardown
      stop
  end

  #sub-classes should override this if they want to change it
  def start_address
    "http://localhost:3003/"
  end

  # Overrides standard "open" method
  def open(addr)
    method_missing 'open', addr
  end

  # Overrides standard "type" method
  def type(inputLocator, value)
    method_missing 'type', inputLocator, value
  end

  # Overrides standard "select" method
  def select(inputLocator, optionLocator)
    method_missing 'select', inputLocator, optionLocator
  end

  def method_missing(method_name, *args)
    @seleniums.each do |selenium_driver|
      if args.empty?
        selenium_driver.send method_name
      else
        selenium_driver.send method_name, *args
      end

    end
  end
end

This works, but if one browser fails, the whole test fails and there is no way to know which browser it failed on.

Answer 1

Did you try Selenium Grid? I think it creates pretty good summary report which shows details you need. I may be wrong, as I didn't use it for quite a while.