maven and selenium in linux

i'm currently coding selenium scripts for automating our tests for a portal application.

here are the pom.xml customizations for using selenium server and client

   4.0.0
   com.spongeduke.tws.portal.webtests
   com.spongeduke.tws.portal.webtests
   jar
   1.0-SNAPSHOT
   com.spongeduke.tws.portal.webtests
   http://maven.apache.org

   
       1.0-beta-1
       2.5.6
       4.4
   


   

       
           org.openqa.selenium.client-drivers
           selenium-java-client-driver
           ${selenium.version}
           test
       
       
           org.springframework
           spring
           ${spring.version}
           test
       
       
           junit
           junit
           ${junit.version}
           test
       

   

   
       

           
               maven-compiler-plugin
               
                   1.5
                   1.5
               
           

           
               org.codehaus.mojo
               selenium-maven-plugin
               
                   
                   
                       xvfb
                       pre-integration-test
                       
                           xvfb
                       
                       
                           :1
                       
                   

                   
                       pre-integration-test
                       
                           start-server
                       
                       
                           4447
                           true
                       
                   
               
           

           
               org.apache.maven.plugins
               maven-surefire-plugin
               
                   
                   true
               
               
                   
                       integration-test
                       
                           test
                       
                       
                           false
                       
                   
               
           

       
   

   
       
           openqa-releases
           Openqa Release Repository
           http://nexus.openqa.org/content/repositories/releases
           default
           
               false
           
           
               true
           
       
       
           openqa-snapshots
           Openqa Snapshot Repository
           http://nexus.openqa.org/content/repositories/snapshots
           default
           
               true
               daily
               ignore
           
           
               false
           
       
   

and here's the sample unit test:

/**
 * spongeduke (c) 2009
 */
package com.spongeduke.tws.portal.webtests;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestCase;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

/**
 * Sample Selenium Test
 * 
 * @author ctract2
 */
public class SampleSeleniumTest extends SeleneseTestCase {

    private Selenium selenium;

    public void setUp() {
        selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4447, "*firefox", "http://localhost:8080");
        selenium.start();
    }

    public void testShouldShowWelcomePage() throws InterruptedException {
        selenium.open("/portal");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("5000");
        verifyEquals("spongeduke DevPortal", selenium.getTitle());
        verifyTrue(selenium.isTextPresent("spongeduke"));
    }

    public void tearDown() {
        selenium.stop();
    }

}

two ways of running the test:

1. using maven
$ mvn integration-test

2. using JUnit Runner in eclipse:
a. start Selenium Server: java -jar selenium-server.jar -port 4447
b. run Selenium Unit Test in eclipse using JUnit Runner

required selenium distribution: selenium-remote-control-1.0-beta-2-dist.zip
and can be downloaded from http://seleniumhq.org/download/

that's all folks!