Alien-SeleniumRC is a package containing the Java based Selenium Server
for use in Selenium Remote Control.
From the Selenium RC website: http://openqa.org/selenium-rc
Selenium Remote Control 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.
The Selenium Server communicates directly with the browser using AJAX
(XmlHttpRequest). You can send commands directly to the Server using
simple HTTP GET/POST requests; that means that you can use any
programming language that can make HTTP requests to automate Selenium
tests on the browser. To further ease this process, we provide wrapper
objects for a number of mainstream programming languages (Perl, Java,
.NET, Python, and Ruby).
Finally, the Selenium Server acts as a client-configured HTTP proxy, to
stand in between the browser and your website. This allows a
Selenium-enabled browser to run JavaScript on arbitrary websites.
The Selenium Server is great for testing complex AJAX-based web user
interfaces under a Continuous Integration system. It is also an ideal
solution for users of Selenium Core or Selenium IDE who want write tests
in a more expressive programming language than the Selenese HTML table
format customarily used with Selenium Core.
Selenium-RC is released under the Apache 2.0 license:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
This package assumes that Java is installed on the system and that
'java' is available on the command line.
The server will attempt to launch browsers, so make sure they're there.
To install:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Using the Selenium Server
Alien::SeleniumRC bundles a script called selenium-rc which will launch
the bundled selenium-server.jar server. Any arguments given to
selenium-rc will be passed through to java.
Start the server:
selenium-rc
See options:
selenium-rc -help
Run server on alternate port:
selenium-rc -port 1234
Copyright (c) 2006 Luke Closs <lukec@cpan.org>.
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.