Thucydides biased towards firefox? Is there built-in IE support?

[samlevin]

After playing around with a sample test I'm creating, I'm realizing that this framework is biased towards firefox.

I've tried this, to set the driver to IE, but it fails.
@Managed
public WebDriver webdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

I've also tried configuring it in settings, but it seems like the ThucydidesRunner defaults the browser back to firefox at some point.

What's the scoop with that?

Thanks,
-Sam

[wakaleo]

Hi Sam,

Firefox is the default driver, but you can run Thucydides with any browser-based Webdriver driver (i.e. Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer). You can set the webdriver.driver property on the command line, e.g. -Dwebdriver.driver=iexplorer. However, you need to tweek the surefire plugin configuration to make sure this property will be passed to the JUnit JVM, with something like this:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <systemPropertyVariables>
                    <webdriver.driver>${webdriver.driver}</webdriver.driver>
                </systemPropertyVariables>
            </configuration>
        </plugin> 

Then you can just pass in the system property (or define it in your pom.xml file), e.g.

$ mvn test -Dwebdriver.driver=iexplorer

The full list of other command-line options and how to use them is detailed towards the end of https://github.com/thucydides-webtests/thucydides/wiki/Thucydides-Tutorial.

[MaxDeAngelis]

Even after following the instructions on the link you have posted it still always defaults back to firefox any ideas?

[wakaleo]

Could you send me your pom.xml file?

Thanks,

John.

On 28 July 2011 03:43, MaxDeAngelis <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Even after following the instructions on the link you have posted it still
always defaults back to firefox any ideas?

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