Question

I am trying to set up Selenium in my Grails project via the Selenium-RC plugin.
I have then run the grails install-plugin selenium-rc command.

Then, I have run the grails create-selenium-test firstTest command, and added the following content to it:

import grails.plugins.selenium.*
import org.junit.*
import static org.junit.Assert.*
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*

@Mixin(SeleniumAware)
class FirstTestTests {
    @Before void setUp() {
    }

    @After void tearDown() {
        super.tearDown()
    }

    @Test void something() {
        selenium.open "/"
        assertTrue selenium.isTextPresent("Bem vindos")
    }
}

When I run the test on Ubuntu 11.04, Grails starts the default firefox browser (version 8.0) but freezes here after printing this to the console output:

    Server running. Browse to http://localhost:8080/
  [groovyc] Compiling 1 source file to /home/alessandro/Documents/[...]/target/test-classes/selenium
Starting Selenium server on port 4444 ...
Starting Selenium session for http://www.mywebsite.com/ ...

When I interrupt the test via Ctrl + C, it throws the following error message:

    Error running selenium tests: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not contact Selenium Server; have you started it on 'localhost:4444' ?
Read more at http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/not-started.html
Connection refused
java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not contact Selenium Server; have you started it on 'localhost:4444' ?
Read more at http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/not-started.html
Connection refused
    at com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium.start(DefaultSelenium.java:86)
        at com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium$start$0.call(Unknown Source)
    at grails.plugins.selenium.SeleniumWrapper.start(SeleniumWrapper.groovy:90)
    at com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium$start.call(Unknown Source)
    at grails.plugins.selenium.SeleniumRunner.startSelenium(SeleniumRunner.groovy:35)
    at grails.plugins.selenium.SeleniumRunner$startSelenium.call(Unknown Source)
    at _Selenium_groovy$_run_closure2.doCall(_Selenium_groovy:50)
    at _Events$_run_closure3.doCall(_Events.groovy:32)
    at _GrailsEvents_groovy$_run_closure5.doCall(_GrailsEvents_groovy:58)
    at _GrailsEvents_groovy$_run_closure5.call(_GrailsEvents_groovy)
    at _GrailsTest_groovy$_run_closure4.doCall(_GrailsTest_groovy:265)
    at _GrailsTest_groovy$_run_closure4.call(_GrailsTest_groovy)
    at _GrailsTest_groovy$_run_closure2.doCall(_GrailsTest_groovy:228)
    at _GrailsTest_groovy$_run_closure1_closure21.doCall(_GrailsTest_groovy:187)
    at _GrailsTest_groovy$_run_closure1.doCall(_GrailsTest_groovy:174)
    at TestApp$_run_closure1.doCall(TestApp.groovy:82)
    at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure5.doCall(Gant.groovy:381)
    at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy:415)
    at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant.withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy:427)
    at gant.Gant.this$2$withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant$this$2$withBuildListeners.callCurrent(Unknown Source)
    at gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:415)
    at gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:590)
    at gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:589)

I have read the plugin doc, which says the server is started by the plugin, which is backed by the console output before the test freezes. I do not really know where to go from there.
I have browse the web but the only piece advice I have found was to add the selenium-server.jar to java path, which seems to be covered by the plugin already.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I had the same issue – you can see my question. the problem I guess is the firefox – I changed it to Chrome and it worked out of the box.
You just need to replace

  browser = "*firefox"

with

  browser = "*googlechrome" 

in SeleniumConfig