Starting Selenium with custom Firefox profile from Eclipse - eclipse

Question

I'm running Selenium tests from within Eclipse, but I can't load a custom Firefox profile.
Most sources suggest I need to launch the Selenium Server like this:
java -jar selenium-server.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate </path/to/template/>
But when launching my test from within Eclipse it doesn't use that - the tests will run if the Selenium Server isn't running.
This thread suggests that I can set the profile in the DefaultSelenium constructor:
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But the code generated for me by Selenium IDE (Firefox plugin) doesn't use that constructor:
package com.example.tests;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Example extends SeleneseTestCase {
public void setUp() throws Exception {
setUp("http://www.example.com/", "*firefox");
}
public void testExample() throws Exception {
selenium.open("/");
selenium.click("//body");
}
}
Where should I set the DefaultSelenium configuration options? Or is there some other method I can use to load my custom Firefox template?
Thanks!
Stu

Answer 1

I made a SeleniumTestCase that starts/stops the server before/after each test class and starts/stops the Selenium instance before/after each test:
public class SeleniumTestCase {
protected static Selenium selenium;
protected static AppNavUtils appNavUtils;
#BeforeClass
public static void setUpBeforeClass() throws Exception {
SeleniumServerControl.getInstance().startSeleniumServer();
}
#AfterClass
public static void tearDownAfterClass() throws Exception {
SeleniumServerControl.getInstance().stopSeleniumServer();
}
#Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
// Replace "*chrome" with "*firefox" for Selenium > 1.0
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 5444, "*chrome", "http://localhost:8080/");
selenium.start();
appNavUtils = new AppNavUtils(selenium);
}
#After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
}
}
The SeleniumServerControl starts and stops the server:
public class SeleniumServerControl {
private static final SeleniumServerControl instance = new SeleniumServerControl();
public static SeleniumServerControl getInstance()
{
return instance;
}
private SeleniumServer server = null;
protected SeleniumServerControl(){}
public void startSeleniumServer() {
if (server == null) {
RemoteControlConfiguration rcc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
rcc.setPort(5444);
//rcc.setFirefoxProfileTemplate(newFirefoxProfileTemplate)
server = new SeleniumServer(rcc);
}
server.start();
}
public void stopSeleniumServer()
{
if (server != null) {
server.stop();
server = null;
}
}
}

Answer 2

the version of code you have above assumes that you are running your tests against localhost on port 4444 thats why it is has 2 parameters in the setup.
To set up eclipse to run it you will need to update the run configuration. That is under
Run > Run Configurations
Have a look for the item that has selenium in it and add the config above so that when it runs it will pick it up and run.
I personally just fire up the server when I start working by running a batch file and kill it at the end of the day.