Getting phpunit-exported selenium IDE files to run in WebDriver - php

Question

I have created a number of selenium IDE files that I converted to phpunit format in Firefox IDE 2.9.1.1 (on a Windows box), using Options -> Format converter. Those converted files define a class "Example" that is derived from class PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase. I now know that this class needs to be changed to PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase. The problem is, I cannot get this to run with recent versions of phpunit.
I am running these tests on a Fedora 24 VM which is using php 5.6.30, java 1.8.0_121-b14, and firefox 51.0.1-2. I have tried to get these to run using selenium standalone server 3.0.1 (and now 3.1.0), and phpunit 5.7.13. I have the latest php facebook WebDriver installed. The error I keep getting is that the above mentioned class is not found. I did a grep on that class and this is what I found:
[root#localhost bin]# grep -r "PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase" .
Binary file ./phpunit/phpunit-4.6.7.phar matches
Binary file ./phpunit/phpunit-4.7.6.phar matches
So, it appears that this class does not exist in phpunit 5.7 and above (which are in that directory), nor does it exist in html-runner.phar, which is in the same directory. The seleniumhq.org site says to use html runner if you convert from IDE, but I can find no examples of how to use the html-runner.phar file (and no documentation).
Can someone please tell me what I should change the class name to, to get this test to work?
UPDATE:
I now know that if I want to use phpunit and selenium server to drive a firefox browser, I have to get selenium talking to geckodriver. I have installed:
geckodriver 0.14.0 at /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
selenium server 3.0.1 at /usr/local/bin/selenium
phpunit-5.7.13.phar installed at /usr/local/bin/phpunit
I used composer to add webdrivers (facebook 1.3.0 :
[root#localhost composer]# cat composer.json
{
"require": {
"facebook/webdriver": "^1.3",
"phpunit/phpunit": ">=3.7",
"phpunit/phpunit-selenium": ">=1.2"
}
}
php composer.phar install
They were added to the PATH:
[bjt#localhost projects]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/selenium:/usr/local/bin/phpunit:/usr/local/bin/composer:/usr/local/bin/geckodriver
I have a small test file:
?php
require_once('/usr/local/bin/composer/vendor/autoload.php');
class test extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase
{
protected function setUp()
{
$this->setBrowser("*firefox");
$this->setBrowserUrl("https://fakeurl.com/");
}
public function testMyTestCase()
{
$this->open("/");
}
}
Starting the selenium server:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/selenium/selenium-standalone-3.0.1.jar
When I run the test:
/usr/local/bin/phpunit/phpunit-5.7.13.phar --verbose test.php
Yields this error:
PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase_WebDriverException: The best matching driver provider Firefox/Marionette driver can't create a new driver instance for Capabilities [{browserName=*firefox}]
So, it appears that geckodriver is not talking to selenium server. If I try to force the issue by changing the execution of the server:
java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver="/usr/local/bin/geckodriver/geckodriver" -jar /usr/local/bin/selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar
or
sudo java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver="/usr/local/bin/geckodriver/geckodriver" -jar /usr/local/bin/selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar
It makes no difference. I'm hoping someone can point out what I am missing. I'm at a dead end.

Answer 1

I am currently working through the same process of getting this to work and would like to point out a few things:
htmlrunner is meant to run the test cases saved directly from the Selenium IDE in the default format, which is html.
Make sure you can run firefox from the terminal running the selenium server.
You added two different selenium php bindings. The facebook one and the phpunit-selenium. I currently have it working with only the facebook binding and phpunit extending the class PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase. I would recommend using the example provided within github for facebook/webdriver without phpunit to verify that your selenium config is working, then add phpunit.