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How do I run a Selenium script periodically?
Run Selenium Tests Using Task Scheduler in Windows 7
- 1.1- You have the Selenium tests in a single or multiple class files.
- 1.2- You have the Selenium tests exported from Eclipse as a Runnable Jar file.
- 1.3- You might be using
- 1.4- Now, use the below code to add into a batch file.
- 2.1- Open control panel.
What is Selenium WD?
Selenium Webdriver is an open-source collection of APIs which is used for testing web applications. The Selenium Webdriver tool is used for automating web application testing to verify that it works as expected or not. It mainly supports browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer.
Can a selenium test be run as a scheduled task?
The test works pretty well when run as a batch file from the command prompt, but when run as a scheduled task it fails horribly with errors like ElementNotVisibleExceptions or not being able to find elements. I’ve tried running the tests as different users with no change in the outcome.
How to run WebDriver as a scheduled task?
I’m trying to run a Selenium WebDriver script written in Python on a Windows 7 64-bit box as a scheduled task. The test works pretty well when run as a batch file from the command prompt, but when run as a scheduled task it fails horribly with errors like ElementNotVisibleExceptions or not being able to find elements.
Why is my selenium test not finding the element?
If you minimize or close Remote Desktop, it will send a message to Windows indicating nobody is using the computer and therefor the desktop no longer needs to be visible. That might be why your Selenium test can’t find the element. The solution there is to use VNC.
Can you use cron with selenium on Linux?
You don’t say which platform you are running on, but if you are running on Linux or Mac OS X, then you could use cron. The combination of Selenium and crontab has been asked about, and answered, on SE Stack Overflow a number of times already. Check out: