Selenium RC - VPS

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi

I am new to Yii and Selenium. I am working through "Agile Web Application Development . . . Jeffrey Winesett. I am getting the following errors.

Time: 1 second, Memory: 8.75Mb

There were 3 errors:

  1. SiteTest::testIndex

Issues while capturing the screenshot:

Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at ‘localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/’: ERROR Server Exception: sessionId should not be null; has this session been started yet?

Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at ‘localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/’: Failed to start new browser session: java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox 3 could not be found in the path!

Please add the directory containing ‘‘firefox-bin’ or ‘firefox’’ to your PATH environment

variable, or explicitly specify a path to Firefox 3 like this:

*firefox3 /blah/blah/firefox-bin

  1. SiteTest::testContact

Issues while capturing the screenshot:

Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at ‘localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/’: ERROR Server Exception: sessionId should not be null; has this session been started yet?

Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at ‘localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/’: Failed to start new browser session: java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox 3 could not be found in the path!

Please add the directory containing ‘‘firefox-bin’ or ‘firefox’’ to your PATH environment

variable, or explicitly specify a path to Firefox 3 like this:

*firefox3 /blah/blah/firefox-bin

  1. SiteTest::testLoginLogout

Issues while capturing the screenshot:

Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at ‘localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/’: ERROR Server Exception: sessionId should not be null; has this session been started yet?

Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at ‘localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/’: Failed to start new browser session: java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox 3 could not be found in the path!

Please add the directory containing ‘‘firefox-bin’ or ‘firefox’’ to your PATH environment

variable, or explicitly specify a path to Firefox 3 like this:

*firefox3 /blah/blah/firefox-bin

FAILURES!

Tests: 3, Assertions: 0, Errors: 3.

I am using Servint VPS hosting, and I am running a Mac laptop. I think I understand the issue (No Firefox on VPS), but can not figure out how to get around this.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thank you

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Hi mdcruns,

Did you fix your issue ? I have the same error messages, running windows 7 on localhost.

I’m mostly concern with the first error message, about sessionId, did you have any hint ?

For the other error regarding firefox, just remove the following line in protected/tests/phpunit.xml




<browser name="Firefox" browser="*firefox" />

Thanks,

3

you can run FF via Xming

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I solved the same problem, i’ve spent all day finding whats wrong, and finally got it…

my error was, i was trying to run phpunit and selenium in the server (centos) … wrong!!!

when i tried to run selenium in my mac and phpunit in the server, finally worked…

just tell the phpunit in the server where is your selenium running…

<browser name="Firefox" browser="*firefox" host="your_ip_address" port="4444" timeout="30000" />

when run :

phpunit functional/SiteTest.php

PHPUnit 3.6.12 by Sebastian Bergmann.

Configuration read from /var/www/html/hello/protected/tests/phpunit.xml

…

Time: 19 seconds, Memory: 7.00Mb

OK (3 tests, 10 assertions)

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I am having this exact same problem, although I’m working on localhost (with PHPUnit and Selenium both).

I have properly set the host, browser, test base URL (etc) in phpunit.xml and WebTestCase.php, am running 2.28.0 (Built from revision 18309) downloaded today from Selenium HQ. I have even tried running start() and initializing a browser session in the setUp (in addition to other solutions I’ve seen around the internet that don’t involve Yii but only PHPUnit and Selenium) and that results in a ton of redundant browser windows opening up (all going to a location at localhost:4444).

I really need to be able to automate web tests. I’m working on a redistributable web application, so it needs to be tested in a diverse range of hosting environments and browsers, and thus automated testing is a must. Can anyone please advise?

From the output of PHPUnit:


RuntimeException: Invalid response while accessing the Selenium Server at 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/selenium-server/driver/': ERROR Server Exception: sessionId should not be null; has this session been started yet?

From the output of Selenium Server:


14:35:58.285 ERROR - Exception running 'getExpression 'command on session null

java.lang.NullPointerException: sessionId should not be null; has this session been started yet?

Edit: For the record, I finally got it working once I:

  1. Overrode setUp in the test case child class

  2. Included a call to setBrowserUrl

  3. Made a call to prepareTestSession right after the call to parent::setUp().