The WHY:
I am looking for options and possible full solutions if someone has already done something similar. I am testing web-based applications using C# Selenium with VS2015 by writing tests that automate the browser and make sure its doing what its supposed to be doing. I have written a whole test suite to test every inch of the website. It is tedious to manually run these tests during the day and then fix them as they come up, so I am looking for a solution that will help me automatically run this test suite every night at a specific time (like midnight) and receive a log/output file of it after that I can check in the morning to see what passed/failed.
Background Info:
- Using C# Selenium in VS2015
- Using TeamCity for CI
- Want to run these tests on its own server (Mac, MS, Linux, doesn't matter, as long as it works)
- Needs to run HEADLESS but emulate Firefox (no browser/display with Selenium - leaning toward Linux solution since its has Xvfb)
- Output/Log required to review next day
Solutions I have looked into:
Currently since we are using TeamCity, I had an idea that we could make a separate server for this nightly testing. But what else is required? Is there an easier way? TeamCity has a scheduler so I can do the build at specific time at night every night, but how does one go about automatically making it run the specific test suite in the form of a VS project file?
Anything will be helpful, even if distantly related or complicated as long as I have some information I can go off of and try and do this on my own!
Thanks :)