Question

I am using Jenkins and Ant to execute my Selenium tests. I would like to make a job that would do the following:

• starts Selenium server
• executes tests and
• kills Selenium server after all tests are run.

I am able to start the Selenium server manually with the following command:

java -jar selenium-2.16.1\selenium-server-standalone-2.25.jar

But I cannot find a Jenkins plugin that would do the start/stop for me. All I can find are some Selenium reporting plugins.

Answer 1

Not sure if there is a plugin, but you can just run the launch and kill commands via the Jenkins job.
Under Build, if you add an Execute shell build step, you can run your commands from there.

Note – The path to the selenium server is relative to the current work directory.