Running UI tests in a local VM

Outlook

• The Magnolia webapp runs on the host as usual
• with manual-tests profile
• e.g.  mvn clean verify -P jetty9-standalone,manual-tests
• free hint #1: run this build from another location on your machine than the one you typically work at
• free hint #2: run it in offline mode (mvn -o ...) if you just installed one of the modules you want to put under test 

• A Selenium standalone server runs on the guest VM

• Test execution is done from the IDE, i.e. also on the host

Instructions

1a. VM Setup manually

1. Setup your VM and install Ubuntu for example
   1. mount iso image in optical drive
2. In VirtualBox preferences > Network > Host-only Networks, click the add icon
   
   • creates a new virtual network interface e.g. vboxnet0
      
3. In VM Settings > Network
   • 1st slot: select "Host-only Adapter", then choose the one you just created — that vboxnet0
   • 2nd slot: select NAT as is usually the default (to access the interwebs through the host)
4. Install guest additions
• When VirtualBox VM is running
• Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image...

1b. VM Setup with Vagrant

1. Download and install vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com or use the vagrant manager http://vagrantmanager.com
2. Clone the repro https://git.magnolia-cms.com/users/mmuehlebach/repos/uitestmachine
3. Go to the cloned directory and run vagrant up
4. Start selenium server with ./selenium-server.sh

2. Selenium server setup

1. In the VM, download Selenium Server (formerly the Selenium RC Server)
   
   • http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
   • should be  something like selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar
   • and then run it, e.g. java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar

2. On your host run the UI Tests with the variables seleniumServerHostName which is the address of your newly created VM and containerHostName which is the address used of your VM to access your host system (this is probably not equal to your machines address in the magnolia network)
   

   $ mvn -U clean install -Pjetty9-standalone,ui-tests -DseleniumServerHostName=192.168.56.101 -DcontainerHostName=192.168.56.1

   If necessary replace the IP addresses.
   

3. In your run configuration in IntelliJ you have to add these two variables seleniumServerHostName and containerHostName as well.
   

   
   

3. Fancy shell script + desktop launcher for the Selenium server

1. Create a new script, e.g. selenium-server on the desktop as follows
   
   • (provided your selenium server jar is on the desktop too)
   • selenium-server.sh

     #!/bin/bash
     gnome-terminal -e "java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar"

2. Make it executable
   • chmod +x your-script
   • Go to Nautilus (eq. Finder) preferences
     • Edit > Preferences, "Behavior" tab
     • Tick "Run executable text files when they are opened"
       
       
3. The fancy icon
   • Download it http://www.seleniumhq.org/images/selenium-logo.png and save it locally to e.g. /home/{user}/.icons/
   • Select your script, right-click and go to the file Properties >  Click the icon and select yours

Double-click your script and you're good to go!