Running Selenium Test Suite for Regression

For this we need small software called ANT, it must be installed and configured to my system(Till the time we have ant with eclipse, now need to set ANT with my system)

Ant is an open source tool for creating builds, it is used to automation repetitive task which we do while creating build, like compiling source code, creating jars javadoc etc.

Ant uses a xml file for configuration.

This xml file contain Target,

 Target means that action/steps need to be performed, it can have  multiple dependent/independent targets for example if a Target A is dependent to Target be then Ant will execute Target B before A.

We can also specify main Target. Main target means target that will be execute per default this main target is dependent to other target that Ant will  execute other targets then this main target.

1à First Check Ant Exist in your system or Not ?

  Go to command prompt and write    “ant –version”

è If it display any version then OK otherwise we need to configure ant to my system

Here it shows version, means I have ant in my system

2à If no version display means, you don’t have ant in your system

è Go to Eclipse Folder, inside it, we have plugins folder, inside that we have apache ant folder

Go to inside bin folder and copy this path

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\eclipse-java-helios-SR1-win32\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.7.1.v20100518-1145\bin

3à We need to set this path in PATH environment variable of my machine

Right Click on My Computerà PropertiesàAdvanced à Click on Environment Variable button à In System Variable à go to PATH variable and Click on Edit

Go to Start if this variable value textbox and paste the bin folder path we copies in step 2 and place semicolon(;)

Now press all OK buttons

4à Again Check Ant Exist in your system or Not ?

  Go to command prompt and write    “ant –version”

Here it will display some version, so ANT is configured now

                            Execute Test Suite without Opening Eclipse

1à Copy the location where my project is placed(location to the folder where build.xml exists)

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\workspace1\JavaTest1

2à Start Command prompt and move to that location

3à Now just write ant, it will start execution

Place all these command in a bat file

è Open notepad

è Write in first line : cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\workspace1\JavaTest1

è In second line write : ant

Save it with any name with .bat extension

Now whenever we want to execute our test suite, just click on this bat file