CruiseControl.Net driving Selenium Tests

This is how you can quickly get CruiseControl.Net running and driving your selenium test – in 6 steps:

1. Donwload & Install CruiseControl.Net
2. Start “CruiseControl.NET Server“ Windows Service
3. Download SeleniumTest sample project and extract it on a folder C:\Projects\.
4. Edit CruiseControl.NET configuration file (C:\Program Files (x86)\CruiseControl.NET\server\ccnet.config) and replace it with the information in C:\Projects\SeleniumTest\CruiseControl.Net\ccnet.config. Modify it with proper locations of MSBuild.exe, MsBuild.dll and MSTest.exe 
5. Start selenium server by running C:\Projects\SeleniumTest\SeleniumServerPort4441.bat.
6. Open http://localhost/ccnet and you will se the project SeleniumSearchTest1 click on Force. It should build the project and start the tests.

The tests will run using chrome, you can change this parameter in C:\Projects\SeleniumTest\SeleniumSearch\SeleniumSearchTest.cs and use "*iehta" for Internet Explorer or  "*firefoxproxy" for Firefox.

// "*iehta" IE -  "*firefoxproxy" FF - *googlechrome
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4441, "*googlechrome", "http://seleniumhq.org/"); 

This is how the ccnet.config file looks

<cruisecontrol xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder">
  <project>
    <name>SeleniumSearchTest1</name>
    <triggers>
      <scheduleTrigger time="23:30" buildCondition="ForceBuild">
        <weekDays>
            <weekDay>Monday</weekDay>
            <weekDay>Tuesday</weekDay>
            <weekDay>Wednesday</weekDay>
            <weekDay>Thursday</weekDay>
            <weekDay>Friday</weekDay>
        </weekDays>
      </scheduleTrigger>
    </triggers>
    <workingDirectory>C:\Projects\SeleniumTest</workingDirectory>
    <tasks>
      <msbuild>
        <executable>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe</executable>
        <workingDirectory>C:\Projects\SeleniumTest</workingDirectory>
        <projectFile>SeleniumTest.sln</projectFile>
        <buildArgs>/noconsolelogger /p:Configuration=Debug /v:diag</buildArgs>
        <targets>Build</targets>
        <timeout>900</timeout>
        <logger>C:\Program Files (x86)\CruiseControl.NET\server\ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.dll</logger>
      </msbuild>
      <exec>
        <executable>DelResults.bat</executable>
        <baseDirectory>.\</baseDirectory>
      </exec>     
      <exec>
        <executable>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe</executable>        
        <baseDirectory>.\</baseDirectory>
        <buildArgs> /testcontainer:SeleniumSearch\bin\Debug\SeleniumSearch.dll /resultsfile:Results\results1.xml</buildArgs>
      </exec>     
    </tasks>
    <publishers>
      <merge>
        <files>
          <file>.\Results\results1.xml</file>
        </files>
      </merge>
      <xmllogger />
    </publishers>
  </project>
</cruisecontrol>

This example applies for VS 2008 Professional, ccnet 1.5.7256.1 and Selenium RC 1.0.3

Links:

http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET

http://github.com/downloads/mariangemarcano/seleniumtest/SeleniumTest-Code.zip