I can run selenium webdriver using the command line script triggering ant.
The script test succeeds, and the Junit test result is generated using a screenshot in the report.
The same script, when it is running on Jenkins, the Chrome browser is not running, it will succeed, but the Junit testing report is not complete, the screenshot does not appear. it looks like the action in the script is also not being executed.
See the log below from the Jenkins console output for a job.
My test PC OS is Windows XP and chrome ver30. The same script works fine with IE and Firefox when launched through Jenkins (you can see the browser launch and execute action.pls.
Information about the magazine:
[testng] log4j: reset attribute= "false".
[testng] log4j: Threshold ="null".
[testng] log4j: Level value for root is [debug].
[testng] log4j: root level set to DEBUG
[testng] log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender]
[testng] log4j: Setting property [threshold] to [INFO].
[testng] log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
[testng] log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p %c{1} : %m%n].
[testng] log4j: Adding appender named [std-out] to category [root].
[testng] log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender]
[testng] log4j: Setting property [file] to [debug.log].
[testng] log4j: Setting property [maxFileSize] to [50MB].
[testng] log4j: Setting property [maxBackupIndex] to [10].
[testng] log4j: Setting property [threshold] to [DEBUG].
[testng] log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
[testng] log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p %c{1} : %m%n].
[testng] log4j: setFile called: debug.log, true
[testng] log4j: setFile ended
[testng] log4j: Adding appender named [debug-out] to category [root].
[testng] 19:04:22,875 INFO BaseSeleniumTest : total test methods found:1
[testng] 19:04:22,875 INFO BaseSeleniumTest :
[testng] CHECKING IF ANY WEBDRIVERS HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN ADDED:
[testng] 19:04:22,875 INFO BaseSeleniumTest : BROWSER NOT PRESENT SO ADDING BROWSER:CH
[testng] 19:04:22,875 INFO WebDriverSupplier : Requested to ADD a webbrowser supplier for :CH
[testng] 19:04:22,875 INFO WebDriverSupplier : ADDED webbrowser supplier for :CH the complete map now contains the following:[CH]
[testng] [TestNG] Running:
[testng] Selenium Regression Tests
[testng]
[testng] 19:04:23,328 INFO BaseSeleniumTest : SET UP REPORTER FOR test1
[testng] 19:04:23,359 INFO BaseSeleniumTest : RETURN:1
[testng] Starting ChromeDriver (v2.3) on port 54671
[testng] org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
[testng] (Driver info: chromedriver=2.3,platform=Windows NT 5.1 SP3 x86) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
[testng] Command duration or timeout: 875 milliseconds
[testng] Build info: version: '2.35.0', revision: 'c916b9d', time: '2013-08-12 15:42:01'
[testng] System info: os.name: 'Windows XP', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '5.1', java.version: '1.7.0_10'
[testng] Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
[testng] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
[testng] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
[testng] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
[testng] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:191)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:554)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:216)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:111)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:115)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:161)
[testng] at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:107)
[testng] at com.examples.core.WebDriverSupplier$1.get(WebDriverSupplier.java:54)
[testng] at com.examples.core.WebDriverSupplier$1.get(WebDriverSupplier.java:39)
[testng] at com.examples.tests.test1.testMethod(test1.java:24)
[testng] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[testng] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
[testng] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
[testng] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
[testng] at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:84)
[testng] at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:714)
[testng] at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:901)
[testng] at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1231)
[testng] at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:127)
[testng] at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:111)
[testng] at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:767)
[testng] at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617)
[testng] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
[testng] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
[testng] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
[testng] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
[testng] at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
[testng] at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
[testng] at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1224)
[testng] at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1149)
[testng] at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
[testng] at org.testng.TestNG.privateMain(TestNG.java:1364)
[testng] at org.testng.TestNG.main(TestNG.java:1333)
[testng] 19:04:26,421 INFO BaseSeleniumTest : finished running 1/1 DECLARED TESTS against 1/1 BROWSERS defined
[testng] 19:04:26,421 INFO BaseSeleniumTest : finished TEST SUITE 1 out of 1 to run
testng] Starting ChromeDriver (v2.3) on port 52079
[testng]
[testng] ===============================================
[testng] Selenium Regression Tests
[testng] Total tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
[testng] Configuration Failures: 1, Skips: 0
[testng] ===============================================
[testng]
[testng] The tests failed.
run-junit-report:
[exec] Buildfile: C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\build.xml
[exec]
[exec] report:
[exec] [junitreport] Processing C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\results\junitreports\TESTS-TestSuites.xml to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\null943067594
[exec] [junitreport] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\xsl\junit-frames.xsl
[exec] [junitreport] Transform time: 1219ms
[exec] [junitreport] Deleting: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\null943067594
[exec]
[exec] check.archive.results:
[exec]
[exec] archive.results:
[exec] [echo] Archiving results....
[exec] [copy] Copying 40 files to C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\archives\results_09-10-2013-0704
[exec]
[exec] copy.images:
[exec] [copy] Copying 4 files to C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\results\junitreports\com\examples\images
[exec] [copy] Copying 8 files to C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\results\junitreports\com\examples\images\media
[exec] [delete] Deleting directory C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\results\junitreports\com\examples\images\templates
[exec] [delete] Deleting directory C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance\Selenium-Regression-Project-master\RegressionTestHarness\SeleniumTestResults
[exec]
[exec] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[exec] Total time: 2 seconds
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 19 seconds
Process leaked file descriptors. See http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Spawning+processes+from+build for more information
[htmlpublisher] Archiving HTML reports...
[htmlpublisher] Archiving at BUILD level C:\Program Files\Jenkins\workspace\myeg maintenance to C:\Program Files\Jenkins\jobs\myeg maintenance\builds\2013-10-09_19-04-10\htmlreports\HTML_Report
Finished: SUCCESS