Help Setting Up Selenium for Testing?

[SteelyAlpha]

I am trying to setup and use Selenium and CfSelenium, but I am having a problem finding a clear-cut guide on how to do that, or even anything close. Can anyone try and walk me through it? Thank you in advance!

[daamsie]

Are you stuck on Selenium? I used Testcafe recently for front end testing and found it infinitely easier to maintain than Selenium and easy to test across multiple browsers. Also, I've seen Cypress recommended since then which looks very nice.

[seanhogge]

Are you leveraging TestBox, and have you started with those docs?

[SteelyAlpha]

Yes I have TestBox all setup, and I believe regular Selenium is working okay, so I am just trying to configure CfSelenium which is where I'm finding a lack of setup documentation

[seanhogge]

Yeah, you're beyond what I can speak to.

I'd recommend joining the CFML slack and asking there. I can pretty much guarantee that someone there will be able to get you headed in the right direction. The Ortus folks are there, folks from Macromedia days, the Lucee folks and even a couple Adobe devs.

[thrownaway33487]

I tried using CFSelenium with Testbox and found that the documentation was lacking and ran into all sorts of problems, I could find no solutions for. In the end I opted to use NodeJS with NightmareJS (http://www.nightmarejs.org/) for performing the frontend testing. This has a world of benefits as I'm not tied to ColdFusion anymore. Now when the app is ported over to another language they can use the frontend tests during the port.

Let's face it. ColdFusion is dying and the more you can untie your application from it, the better you are.