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 cpanm:
$ cpanm Selenium::Remote::Driver
If you want to install from this repository, you have a few options:
With Dist::Zilla
If you have Dist::Zilla, it's straightforward:
$ dzil listdeps --missing | cpanm
$ dzil install
Without Dist::Zilla
If you don't want to use Dist::Zilla, we maintain a cpan branch that
has a Makefile.PL that cpanm can install from:
$ cpanm -v git://github.com/gempesaw/Selenium-Remote-Driver.git@cpan
Or, if the git:// protocol is blocked or you don't want to use cpanm
$ git clone https://github.com/gempesaw/Selenium-Remote-Driver
$ cd Selenium-Remote-Driver
$ git checkout -b cpan origin/cpan
$ perl Makefile.PL
Viewing dependencies
You can also use cpanm to help you with dependencies after you've
cloned the repository:
$ cpanm --showdeps .
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 somewhere like Saucelabs.
Locally
use Selenium::Remote::Driver;
my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new;
$driver->get('http://www.google.com');
print $driver->get_title();
$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.
NB: Problems with Webdriver 2.42.x ?
It appears that the standalone webdriver API for no-content successful
responses changed slightly in 2.42.x versions, breaking things like
get_ok and set_window_size. Your options for fixes are:
- Upgrade your version of S::R::D via your preferred method! We've released v0.2002 of S::R::D to CPAN, which contains the fixes to address this.
- Or, stick with v2.41.0 of the Selenium standalone server or lower for your tests. v0.2001 of S::R::D still works with v2.41.0 of the standalone server.
Support and Documentation
Check out metacpan for the POD; alternatively, 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.
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.