Selenium-Remote-Driver

Selenium::Remote::Driver

Selenium WebDriver 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. This module is a Perl implementation of the client for the Webdriver JSONWireProtocol that Selenium provides.

This module sends commands directly to the server using HTTP. Using this module together with the Selenium Server, you can automatically control any supported browser. To use this module, you need to have already downloaded and started the standalone Selenium Server.

Installation

It's probably easiest to use the cpanm or CPAN commands:

$ cpanm Selenium::Remote::Driver

If you want to install from this repository, you have a few options; see the installation docs for more details.

Usage

no standalone server

• For Firefox: simply have the browser installed in the normal place for your OS.

  my $firefox = Selenium::Firefox->new;
  $firefox->get('http://www.google.com');
  

• For Chrome: install the chrome browser and download Chromedriver

  my $chrome = Selenium::Chrome->new;
  $chrome->get('http://www.google.com');
  

with a standalone server

Download the standalone server and have it running on port 4444; then the following should start up Firefox for you:

Locally

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Selenium::Remote::Driver;

my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new;
$driver->get('http://www.google.com');
print $driver->get_title . "\n"; # "Google"

my $query = $driver->find_element('q', 'name');
$query->send_keys('CPAN Selenium Remote Driver');

my $send_search = $driver->find_element('btnG', 'name');
$send_search->click;

# make the find_element blocking for a second to allow the title to change
$driver->set_implicit_wait_timeout(2000);
my $results = $driver->find_element('search', 'id');

print $driver->get_title . "\n"; # CPAN Selenium Remote Driver - Google Search
$driver->quit;

Saucelabs

use Selenium::Remote::Driver;

my $user = $ENV{SAUCE_USERNAME};
my $key = $ENV{SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY};

my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new(
    remote_server_addr => $user . ':' . $key . '@ondemand.saucelabs.com',
    port => 80
);

$driver->get('http://www.google.com');
print $driver->get_title();
$driver->quit();

There are additional usage examples on metacpan, and also in this project's wiki, including setting up the standalone server, running tests on Internet Explorer, Chrome, PhantomJS, and other useful example snippets.

Support and Documentation

There is a new mailing list available at

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/selenium-remote-driver

for usage questions and ensuing discussions. If you've come across a bug, please open an issue in the Github issue tracker. The POD is available in the usual places, including metacpan, and in your shell via perldoc.

$ perldoc Selenium::Remote::Driver
$ perldoc Selenium::Remote::WebElement

Contributing

Thanks for considering contributing! The contributing guidelines are also in the wiki. The documentation there also includes information on generating new recordings via

$ perl t/bin/record.pl

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Aditya Ivaturi, Gordon Child

Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel Gempesaw

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.