Running tests with several browsers using Drone?

[oppermann]

Hi.

I'm in a situation where I want to run my testcases with several browsers.

Ideally I would like to be able to: first running the entire test class with one browser and then run that same test class but with a different browser.

After having looked at https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ARQ/Drone it only seems possible if I define a new driver that uses a custom annotation like so:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)

@Target({ ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER })

@Qualifier

public @interface Different

{

}

and then inject the additional driver using:

@Drone

@Different

GrapheneSelenium driver;

If I use the approach described, I end up with the overhead of having the same tests defined multiple times but using a different driver.

I must be missing out on something here - there must be an easier way ?

[bmajsak]

Hi Christian,

one of the possible solution which come to my mind is to use different mvn profiles where you simply define different default driver in arquillian.xml (using implementationClass in Drone 1.0.0 or new Capabilities feature from 1.1.0 branch)

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Bartosz

[oppermann]

Thanks for your answer - It sounds like a possible solution!

Being new to both Arquillian, Drone and maven I could really use a little example of what you are describing

[bmajsak]

You can have a look at this project of mine (web module) - it has several mvn profiles and different browsers for Drone 1.0.0.

[oppermann]

That was helpful! However I'm still not sure how one would run with a different browser depending on the maven profile.

[bmajsak]

As I done in that project - each mvn profile has it's own arquillian.xml where you can define which browser you want to use.

[oppermann]

That makes sense !

Thank you for elaborating your answer, very helpful