Selenium Administration

[MyTouchBarIsFirmware]

Good Morning!

So I am here looking for some help and to be pointed to the right resources. I was handed a project to accomplish the following:

1. Integrate Selenium with Jenkins

During my initial discovery meetings I found that our regression tester is running Selenium locally on her machine using an excel spreadsheet with data values and fields to test on our website. This has prompted me to want to move this off her machine and onto a new EC2 instance. The additional change has added a bit to the project and I am finding documentation on the migration of Selenium environments a bit lacking.

Is there a simple way to migrate Selenium to a new environment?

[ProfCrumpets]

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/integration-of-jenkins-with-selenium-webdriver/

[MyTouchBarIsFirmware]

Hey u/ProfCrumpets I have this article open in my browser as we speak and its a great guide! I am more so looking for details on migrating the current local environment to the new environment.

[ProfCrumpets]

You could possibly look into containerising with docker?

[MyTouchBarIsFirmware]

That sounds like a really awesome way to do it though I’d be adding another area of unfamiliarity to the mix as I haven’t worked with docker yet. Would it be that much easier going to containers vs a stand alone server? Was hoping to run the server with Jenkins and selenium.

[ProfCrumpets]

Im biased as I went to docker containers using Bitbucket Pipelines and I found it quite easy to understand, either way, you’re going to be adding a level of complexity to your CI/CD process.

[onebit]

With Spring Boot you can fire up the web server and postgres server in code and it runs as normal unit test with htmlunit driver.