PHPUnit & Selenium - How to get driver being used by a test? - php

Question

My general test setup looks something like:
class MySeleniumTest extends PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase{
public static $browsers = array(
array(
'name' => 'Mozilla - Firefox',
'browser' => '*firefox',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => 4444,
'timeout' => 30000,
),
array(
'name' => 'Google - Chrome',
'browser' => '*googlechrome',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => 4444,
'timeout' => 30000,
)
);
//etc
}
And from here an individual test file looks something like:
class MyTest extends MySeleniumTest{
public function setUp(){
parent::setUp();
$this->setUser(1);
}
public function testPageTitle(){
//Login and open the test page.
$this->login(8);
$this->open('/test/page');
//Check the title.
$this->assertTitle('Test Page');
}
}
From here, when I run MyTest.php with PHPUnit, PHPUnit will automatically run each test case in MyTest.php. Furthermore, it runs each test on each of the specified browsers individually. What I want to be able to do is get information on the driver running a specific test case from within that test case. So something like:
public function testPageTitle(){
//Login and open the test page.
$this->login(8);
$this->open('/test/page');
//Check the title.
$this->assertTitle('Test Page');
$driver = $this->getDriver();
print($driver['browser']); //or something.
}
This however, does not work. And $this->getDrivers() just adds more drivers to the tests, and is only suppose to be used by the setup. Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

Even though $this->drivers is an array there is always only one element in it. You can check that here. So
$this->drivers[0] contains informations about currently running browser and you can use $this->drivers[0]->getBrowser() to output browser name.
Example:
require_once 'MySeleniumTest.php';
class MyTest extends MySeleniumTest{
public function setUp(){
parent::setUp();
$this->setBrowserUrl('http://www.google.com/');
}
public function testPageTitle(){
$this->open('http://google.com');
echo "{$this->drivers[0]->getBrowser()}\n";
}
}
Outputs:
PHPUnit 3.7.18 by Sebastian Bergmann.
.*firefox
.*googlechrome
Time: 7 seconds, Memory: 3.50Mb
OK (2 tests, 0 assertions)