Selenium-Remote-Driver

Selenium::Remote::Driver

Selenium WebDriver is an open source project that exposes an API for browser automation, among other things. Selenium::Remote::Driver is a set of Perl bindings to that API that allow you to write automated browser tests in Perl, taking advantage of Selenium's strong ecosystem.

Installation

$ cpanm Selenium::Remote::Driver

To install from this repository, clone it, get Dist::Zilla, and:

$ dzil installdeps --missing | cpanm
$ dzil install

Usage

You'll need a Remote WebDriver Server running somewhere. You can download a selenium-standalone-server.jar and run one locally, or you can point your driver at Saucelabs and let them handle the it.

Locally

use Selenium::Remote::Driver;

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

Unit Tests

This module uses LWP::Protocol::PSGI to facilitate unit tests. LWP::Protocol::PSGI overrides the LWP HTTP/HTTPS & this allows us to "mock" the interaction with WebDriver Server. In regular instances you should be running the tests against the mocked recording, which are stored in t/mock-recordings. If you want to run the tests live against the WebDriver server, set an environment variable WD_MOCKING_RECORD to 1. This will force the unit tests to run tests against the WebDriver server & also save the traffic (request/response) in t/mock-recordings.

There is a short script that will handle the environment variable and generate recordings for you:

$ perl t/bin/generate-recordings.pl

Support and Documentation

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

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

Please file all bugs in the Github issue tracker.

You can also find some supporting docs in the Github Wiki.

License and Copyright

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

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.