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Installing Selenium 1.0 and write tests with PHP
_ The documentation is very good: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/
_ Donwload Selenium RC from here: http://seleniumhq.org/download/
_ When you extract it, there will be a directory with the server and a
number of directories
with the clients, depending on the language you intend to use
_ The server will make the browser(s) available to the tests (so it must
have a graphical Desktop environment and the browser installed)
_ The tests will be launched on the client
_ Obviously client and server can sit on the same machine
_ To run the server:
java -jar selenium-server-1.0.3/selenium-server.jar
_ On the client you need to have PHPUnit installed in order to run the tests
_ In the directory selenium-php-client-driver-1.0.1 you have extracted,
create a new test file myTest.php , like this one:

< ?php
require_once 'PHPUnit/Extensions/SeleniumTestCase.php';
class Example extends PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase
{
	public static $browsers = array(
			array('name' => 'Firefox on Linux',
			'browser' => '*firefox',
			// 'browser' => '*firefox /usr/bin/firefox',
			'host' => 'localhost',
			'port' => 4444,
			'timeout' => 30000,
			),
			array('name' => 'Chrome on Linux',
			'browser' => '*chrome /home/daniele/chrome/chrome-wrapper',
			'host' => 'localhost',
			'port' => 4444,
			'timeout' => 30000,
			)
		);
		protected function setUp()
		{
			$this->setBrowserUrl("http://www.mysite.com";);
		}

		public function testMyTestCase()
		{
			$this->open("/");
			$this->click("link=contactus");
			$this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");
			try {
				$this->assertTrue($this->isTextPresent("Hello"));
			} catch (PHPUnit_Framework_AssertionFailedError $e) {
				array_push($this->verificationErrors, $e->toString());
			}
		}
}
?>

_ to run the tests:
phpunit myTest.php