Set Up a Continuous Testing Server to Run Selenium Tests in Minutes

Do it quickly using 100% free and open-source software, no previous CI/CT experience is required

While Continuous Testing (CT, in short) is not a new term, it remains mysterious to many people, as they have never seen it working in software projects. In this article, I will show you how to set up a CT server from scratch to run a set of Selenium WebDriver tests on your machine in minutes. No previous CI/CT experience is required.

What are the differences between CI and CT servers? The short answer: CI server is suitble for managing executions of unit tests; CT server is suitable for managing executions of functional tests.

Every software you will use is 100% free, in both freedom and cost.

Objectives

• Install and set up a CT server (BuildWise)
• Create a CT project for a set of existing test scripts
• Trigger a test execution of all test scripts with a click of a button
• See test execution results on CT Server

Estimated time: 10–30 minutes. The majority of the time will be spent on installing prerequisite software such as Ruby and its libraries. If you have already…