Run Selenium Tests With PHP On LambdaTest

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Learn how to run your PHP automation testing scripts on the LambdaTest platform

Table Of Contents

• Pre-requisites
• Run Your First Test
• Local Testing With PHP

Prerequisites

Before you begin automation testing with Selenium, you would need to:

• Make sure that you have the latest PHP installed on your system. You can download and install PHP using following commands in the terminal:

  • MacOS: Previous versions of MacOS have PHP installed by default. But for the latest MacOS versions starting with Monterey, PHP has to be downloaded and installed manually by using below commands:

  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  brew install php

  • Windows:

  sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php

  Note: For Windows, you can download PHP from here. Also, refer to this documentation for ensuring the accessibility of PHP through Command Prompt(cmd).

• Download composer in the project directory (Linux/MacOS, Windows).

  Note: To use the composer command directly, it either should have been downloaded in the project directory or should be accessible globally which can be done by the command below:

  mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Installing Selenium Dependencies And Tutorial Repo

Step 1: Clone the LambdaTest’s Php-Selenium repository and navigate to the code directory as shown below:

git clone https://github.com/LambdaTest/php-selenium-sample
cd Php-Selenium

Step 2: Install the composer dependencies in the current project directory using the command below:

composer install

Setting Up Your Authentication

Make sure you have your LambdaTest credentials with you to run test automation scripts on LambdaTest Selenium Grid. You can obtain these credentials from the LambdaTest Automation Dashboard or through LambdaTest Profile.

Step 3: Set LambdaTest Username and Access Key in environment variables.

• For Linux/macOS:

export LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME" export LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR ACCESS KEY"

• For Windows:

set LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME" set LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR ACCESS KEY"

Run Your First Test

Test Scenario: The sample LambdaTest.php file tests a sample to-do list app by marking couple items as done, adding a new item to the list and finally displaying the count of pending items as output.

Let's check the sample test script LambdaTest.php file.

Configuration Of Your Test Capabilities

Step 4: In the test script, you need to update your test capabilities. Here, the code will select the basic capabilities such as OS, browser, browser version and so on.

//Basic Test Configurations For PHP

$capabilities = array(
    "build" => "your build name",
    "name" => "your test name",
    "platform" => "macOS High Sierra",
    "browserName" => "Firefox",
    "version" => "64.0",
    "resolution" => "1280x1024",
    "selenium_version" => "3.13.0",
    "screenshot" => true,
    "firefox.driver" => v0.23.0
    )

You can generate capabilities for your test requirements with the help of our inbuilt Desired Capability Generator.

Executing the Test

Step 5: The tests can be executed in the terminal using the following command:

php Lambdatest.php

Your test results would be displayed on the test console (or command-line interface if you are using terminal/cmd) and on LambdaTest automation dashboard.

Testing Locally Hosted Or Privately Hosted Projects

You can test your locally hosted or privately hosted projects with LambdaTest Selenium grid using LambdaTest Tunnel. All you would have to do is set up an SSH tunnel using tunnel and pass toggle tunnel = True via desired capabilities. LambdaTest Tunnel establishes a secure SSH protocol based tunnel that allows you in testing your locally hosted or privately hosted pages, even before they are live.

Refer our LambdaTest Tunnel documentation for more information.

Here’s how you can establish LambdaTest Tunnel.

Download the binary file of:

• LambdaTest Tunnel for Windows
• LambdaTest Tunnel for macOS
• LambdaTest Tunnel for Linux

Open command prompt and navigate to the binary folder.

Run the following command:

LT -user {user’s login email} -key {user’s access key}

So if your user name is lambdatest@example.com and key is 123456, the command would be:

LT -user lambdatest@example.com -key 123456

Once you are able to connect LambdaTest Tunnel successfully, you would just have to pass on tunnel capabilities in the code shown below :

Tunnel Capability

 "tunnel" => true

Tutorials 📙

Check out our latest tutorials on PHP automation testing 👇

• 10 of the Best PHP Testing Frameworks for 2021
• Getting Started With Selenium PHP For Automation Testing
• Web automation testing using Selenium PHP on cloud-based Selenium Grid
• Handling Multiple Browser Windows and Tabs in Selenium PHP
• How to Work with Tables in Selenium PHP?
• How To Open IE and Edge Browsers In Selenium WebDriver Using PHP
• How to Handle Synchronization in Selenium PHP Using Implicit and Explicit Wait?
• How to Execute JavaScript in Selenium PHP?
• How to Generate PHPUnit Coverage Report in HTML and XML?
• How to Setup CI/CD Pipeline with Bamboo for PHP Projects?

Documentation & Resources 📚

Visit the following links to learn more about LambdaTest's features, setup and tutorials around test automation, mobile app testing, responsive testing, and manual testing.

• LambdaTest Documentation
• LambdaTest Blog
• LambdaTest Learning Hub

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