Seleniumrc_fu initial test issue

I have the seleniumrc_fu plugin installed and setup according to the
instructions, and can run the selenium:test task if there are no test
cases. My first test case simply does an open_home_page to verify
that things are working at all. Unfortuniately there seems to be an
issue with even this simple a test case. The following suggests that
there is an issue with the getNewBrowserSession command. The browser
name appears to be prefixed with a special character. Is this
normal? I am not sure how to proceed in diagnosing this as it appears
to be on the selenium server side of the house.

I also note that when the test fails it does not shutdown the selenium
server. At least it finds an existing server on rerunning the test.

Michael

MBP:/volumes/data/projects/esco lattam$ rake selenium:test
(in /Volumes/Data/Projects/esco)
Wed Jun 13 11:25:31 -0700 2007 - checking localhost
Wed Jun 13 11:25:31 -0700 2007 - Checking for server on localhost:4444
Wed Jun 13 11:25:31 -0700 2007 - done checking
Wed Jun 13 11:25:31 -0700 2007 - rake
selenium:test_with_server_started --trace browsers=firefox
selenium_server_host=localhost app_server_host=localhost
(in /Volumes/Data/Projects/esco)
** Invoke selenium:test_with_server_started (first_time)
** Execute selenium:test_with_server_started
Loaded suite /users/lattam/src/bin/rake
Running *firefox…
Started
Requesting —>/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=
%2Afirefox&2=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A4000
RESULT:

E
Finished in 0.160018 seconds.

  1. Error:
    test_home(SimpleTest):
    SeleniumCommandError:
    /Volumes/Data/Projects/esco/config/…/vendor/plugins/seleniumrc_fu/
    lib/selenium/version_0_8_1/selenium.rb:156:in do_command' /users/lattam/src/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:intimeout’
    /users/lattam/src/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout’

By running the server in a separate window I got this from its output
which is getting helpful. It would be good if the documentation for
seleniumrc_fu had setup instructions that covered getting the browsers
defined and setup for Mac and PC platforms and for remote hosts to do
cross-platform testing.

Michael

WARNING: GET /selenium-server/driver/?cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=
%2Afirefox&2=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A4000 HTTP/1.1
java.lang.RuntimeException:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.BrowserLauncherFactory.createBrowserLauncher(BrowserLauncherFactory.java:
130)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.BrowserLauncherFactory.getBrowserLauncher(BrowserLauncherFactory.java:
80)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.getNewBrowserSession(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:
266)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.doCommand(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:
179)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handleCommandRequest(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:
165)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handle(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:
108)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:
816)
at
org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:982)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:
833)
at
org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:
244)
at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:
357)
at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:
534)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:
39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:
27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:
494)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.BrowserLauncherFactory.createBrowserLauncher(BrowserLauncherFactory.java:
117)
… 14 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox couldn’t be found in
the path!
Please add the directory containing ‘firefox-bin’ to your PATH
environment
variable, or explicitly specify a path to Firefox like this:
*firefox /blah/blah/firefox-bin