Question

i am running a selenium code on visual studio 2008. the code is like this..

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading;
using NUnit.Framework;
using Selenium;

namespace SeleniumTests
{
[TestFixture]
public class MyFirstVCTest
{
    private ISelenium selenium;
    private StringBuilder verificationErrors;

    [SetUp]
    public void SetupTest()
    {
        selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://demo.volunteercampaigns.com/");
        selenium.Start();
        verificationErrors = new StringBuilder();
    }

    [TearDown]
    public void TeardownTest()
    {
        try
        {
            selenium.Stop();
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            // Ignore errors if unable to close the browser
        }
        Assert.AreEqual("", verificationErrors.ToString());
    }

    [Test]
    public void TheMyFirstVCTest()
    {

        selenium.Open("/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1");
        selenium.Click("link=Login");
        selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.Type("id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_txtEmailAddress", "[e-mail]");
        selenium.Type("id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_txtPassword", "bees123");
        selenium.Click("id=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_btnlogin");
        selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.Click("id=ctl00_lblUserName");
        selenium.Click("id=ctl00_lnkSignOut");
        selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("30000");
    }
}
}

i started selenium server server using following command(in command prompt)

java -jar selenium-server.jar

i got the following screen

and i started running my program. but i got a empty firefox window. now the command prompt changed as

why it is halted at Launching firefox?? please help..

my firefox version is 11.0 and selenium version is 2.20.0

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

I think the error is that you have chrome listed in your config. Shouldn’t it be *firefox?