using a remote Selenium server from Selenium test cases written in groovy - groovy

Question

I've used Selenium ide to record test cases, export them to Groovy source, modify as necessary and run them. The default code expects a server on localhost, I'd like to use a server on a remote machine. How can I do this? When looking at the doc for GroovySeleneseTestCase it does not appear there is a setUp() method that allows you to use a remote server. The only option I can think of is setting a server host and port through the default selenium object in my setUp() method but am not sure how to do this.

Answer 1

In Java:
HttpCommandProcessor processor = new HttpCommandProcessor("localhost", 3300, browserName, appBaseURL);
selenium = new CustomSelenium(processor, browserName, waitToLoadTimeout, waitForConditionTimeout);
selenium.start();
just replace localhost and 3300 by the server's address and the correct port. I don't know Groovy, but it shouldn't be much different. Of course, the server has to be started first and the firewall configured.

Answer 2

In order to get this to work I had to create a custom instance of GroovySelenium, assign it to the test class, and not call the super.setUp method. Code example follows.
void setUp(String selServer, int selPort, String browser, String basePath) throws Exception {
def tempSel=new DefaultSelenium(selServer, selPort, browser, basePath)
selenium= new GroovySelenium(tempSel)
selenium.start()
setDefaultTimeout(30000)
setCaptureScreenshotOnFailure(false)
}
Assuming you have this setup method in a class called MyTest, want to test google.com using a selenium server with host name myserver, port 5555, and using internet explorer as the browser the following code would work.
test=New MyTest()
test.setUp("myserver",5555,"*iexplore","http://www.google.com")
test.testMyTest()