Alien::SeleniumRC - Packages the Selenium Remote Control server.
use Alien::SeleniumRC; Alien::SeleniumRC::start();
The Selenium RC home page is at http://openqa.org/selenium-rc
Selenium Remote Control is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
Selenium Remote Control provides a Selenium Server, which can automatically start/stop/control any supported browser. It works by using Selenium Core, a pure-HTML+JS library that performs automated tasks in JavaScript.
startThis method launches the Selenium RC server bundled in this package. This call will block until the server is killed.
The first argument passed to start() will be passed to selenium-server.jar as a command line argument.
helpPrints the selenium-server.jar usage.
A copy of selenium-server.jar is installed in the Alien::SeleniumRC module directory. The Selenium RC version in this distribution is Version 1.0.1, released 10 June 2009.
To update your local copy, download SeleniumRC from http://seleniumhq.org/download/ and extract the file selenium-server.jar. Copy it to the Alien::SeleniumRC module directory. On most systems, you can find that path by typing
perldoc -l Alien::SeleniumRC
Previous versions of Alien::SeleniumRC used sudo to launch the Java process using StartupItemContext when running under any version of Mac OSX. Running sudo in the middle of automated test suites can be problematic and not alwasy required so from 1.01 on this is no longer the default behaviour.
To get the old behaviour back, set the environment variable SELENIUMRC_USE_SIC to a true value before calling start.
WWW::Selenium, Test::WWW::Selenium
Selenium Remote Control home page: http://openqa.org/selenium-rc
Selenium home page: http://openqa.org/selenium
Selenium Core home page: http://openqa.org/selenium-core
This software is released under the same terms as perl itself. If you don't know what that means visit http://perl.com/
Copyright 2006 by Luke Closs
All rights Reserved
Luke Closs <selenium-rc@awesnob.com>
Cygwin support provided by: Kevin Jones <kevin_jones@telus.net>
Co-maintainer Hisso Hathair <hisso@cpan.org>
