Interacitve shell for php-webdriver to debug selenium

I do most of my selenium (actually locator’s) debugging in chrome console, $() for css selectors and and $x() for xpath selectors but when it actually comes to debugging selenium/webdriver api calls I prefer interactive shell of programming language (python, ruby and php and pretty decent built in shells)

Bellow is how you can configure php shell to play around with selenium

Installation

• get composer Composer (If you don’t already use Composer)

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

• get psysh A runtime developer console, interactive debugger and REPL for PHP

wget psysh.org/psysh
chmod +x psysh
./psysh

Then install the library:

php composer.phar require facebook/webdriver

All you need as the server for this client is the selenium-server-standalone-#.jar file provided here: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Download and run that file, replacing # with the current server version.

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-#.jar

// author : Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php'; //composer generated autoload file
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver;
use Facebook\WebDriver\WebDriverBy;

$host = 'http://192.168.99.100:4444/wd/hub';
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, DesiredCapabilities::firefox());
/* 
Or  if you wan't to modify $capabilities
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\WebDriverCapabilityType;
$capabilities = array(\WebDriverCapabilityType::BROWSER_NAME => 'firefox');
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, $capabilities);
*/
//e.g. Mouse over on an element
$element = $driver->findElement(WebDriverBy::id('some_id'));
$driver->getMouse()->mouseMove( $element->getCoordinates() );

Reference:
 - [1]: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
 - [2]: https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver
 - [3]: https://getcomposer.org/
-  [4]: http://psysh.org/

Selenium, Jbehave , gradle and Serenity - Perfect combination for automating BDD styled checks in Java

I have just created this demo project using Selenium, gradle, Jbehave and Serenity

https://github.com/mubbashir/jbehave-selenium-bdd

Why add Serenity?

Serenity adds plugins to Jbehave and makes it a lot easier to write acceptance tests as mentioned on it site Serenity BDD helps you write cleaner and more maintainable automated acceptance and regression tests faster.
The other things I loved about Serenity is the it has wonderful reports  for BDD "Serenity also uses the test results to produce illustrated, narrative reports that document and describe what your application does and how it works."
See:

Structure

├── ReadMe.md  ## ReadME file of cource ;)
├── build.gradle ## gradle build file 
├── gradle
│   └── wrapper
│       ├── gradle-wrapper.jar
│       └── gradle-wrapper.properties
├── gradlew ## grdadle warapper
├── src
│   └── test
│       ├── java
│       │   └── test
│       │       ├── WebTest.java ## This is where the tests resides which add all the steps using net.serenitybdd.jbehave.SerenityStepFactory
│       │       └── selenium
│       │           ├── page ## This where all the pages extending net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject
│       │           │   ├── google
│       │           │   │   └── GoogleLanding.java
│       │           │   └── interfaces
│       │           │       └── Landing.java
│       │           └── steps ## Pages are used in steps 
│       │               └── GoogleSteps.java
│       └── resources
│           └── stories
│               └── google
│                   ├── Search2.story
│                   └── search.story

Refrences

• [jbehave]: http://jbehave.org/
• [gradle]: http://gradle.org/
• [serenity]: http://thucydides.info/docs/serenity/#first-steps