Is the source code required when using Selenium-RC with Grails?

Question

Can anyone help with using Selenium-RC + Grails? I have used Selenium with Java but had no problem writing the code and launching the browser. But is the source code of my project required when i need to use Selenium-RC with Grails?

Any links to resources to learn will be very helpful.

• user246: I am not sure I understand your question. Did something happen that suggested to you that using Selenium with grails might require accessing your web application's source code?

Answer 1

Try Geb, it's a groovy wrapper for Selenium:

http://www.gebish.org/

http://grails.org/plugin/geb

• Kanishka Choudhury: i want to automate scenario so the regression becomes less time consuming. so my biggest question i am facing now is.. can we do blackbox testing using selenium-rc using grails?? or it is only used to do whitebox testing
• Ardesco: You cannot do whitebox testing with Selenium. Selenium drives a browser to interact with a web page, is has no concept of the code layer behind the website (e.g. PHP, ASP, Ruby, etc).
• dzieciou: @Ardesco, it might however be aware of JavaScript code on browser-side, correct?
• Ardesco: Depends on your definition of aware. You can add hooks into your JavaScript code that Selenium can use and you can use a JavascriptExecutor to use these hooks. You can also use a JavaScriptExecutor to run your own JavaScript (Basically exactly what an end user could do with a JavaScript console).