[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-16285) Support for Selenium Server adapter

[Lukáš Fryč (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16285?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12940055#comment-12940055 ] 

Lukáš Fryč commented on JBIDE-16285:
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The use case is support of reusable sessions that:

* speeds up test development (the difference is similar to difference between managed and remote Arquillian container modes)
* allows in-browser debugging of Selenium tests (again, similar to remote container in debugging mode)

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We could either:

* let an user point to {{selenium-server-standalone.jar}} binary and phantomjs[.exe] binary manually
* detect the artifacts on classpath in one of opened projects - here we could depend on presence of Arquillian Drone - so the only dependency between JBoss Tools and Selenium would be Drone API


A right solution highly depends on requirements (e.g. minimize maintanance efforts on JBoss Tools side, leveraging classpath resolution, hooking up Drone API),
so I would prefer to discuss possibilities once we know whether we want something like this in JBDS or not.. ;-)
                
> Support for Selenium Server adapter
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-16285
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16285
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: testing-tools
>            Reporter: Lukáš Fryč
>             Fix For: LATER
>
>
> Running Selenium Server remotely is integral part of Arquillian Drone workflow for authoring [Selenium/WebDriver/Graphene|https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ARQGRA2/Using+WebDriver] based tests (both are part of WFK), leveraging [Drone Reusable Browser Session|https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ARQGRA2/Using+Drone?_sscc=t#UsingDrone-DroneReusableSession] feature.
> The idea is having a Selenium Server as a server adapter in Servers view (similarly to Livereload server adapter).
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> Available actions:
> * start/stop/restart
> * kill all running browsers
> ** there is [well-defined (RESTful) API|https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol#/sessions called JsonWireProtocol] for controlling the Selenium Server
> * eventually selecting a browser to run tests against (e.g. PhantomJS in (now it is leveraged via arquillian.xml configuration)
> Configuration options:
> * select [{{selenium-server-standalone.jar}}|http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/] to run
> ** upgrades of Selenium are necessary because of browser-compatibility reasons
> ** there could be even an option for downloading newer versions automatically
> Advanced features:
> * debugging support for PhantomJS browser driver (need to pass [remote debugging arguments|https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Troubleshooting#remote-debugging])

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