Integrating Selenium with Nagios XI

This documentation is a guide to integrating Selenium web test scripts with Nagios. It is a start to finish guide starting from the ground up.

Selenium is a powerful tool for creating web browser based tests, and automated functions.

Test automation has specific advantages for improving the long-term efficiency of a software team’s testing processes. Test automation supports:

• Frequent regression testing
• Rapid feedback to developers
• Virtually unlimited iterations of test case execution
• Support for Agile and extreme development methodologies
• Disciplined documentation of test cases
• Customized defect reporting
• Finding defects missed by manual testing

-Excerpt from http://seleniumhq.org/docs/01_introducing_selenium.html

More information on Selenium may be found at the projects site:

http://seleniumhq.org/

The check used may be found here:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Websites%2C-Forms-and-Transactions/Perl-check_selenium/details

And the documentation may be found here:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Integrating_Selenium_With_Nagios.pdf