Chrome browser is getting bring front while running selenium scripts parallels using multi thread concept hence focus of screen is losing and failing most of test cases. could any one advise if anything can be done for not to bring front browser
I think that the best options is to run headless when you're running the tests in parallel:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--headless");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
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Im using k6/x/browser and while running in headed mode my interactions with the browser has no issues
However when I want to use headless mode (because I want to run multiple concurrent vus) then i run in to issues and that interactions with the browser doesnt want to happen
Any ideas on how I can run in headless mode using multiple concurrent vus?
I'm programmatically creating virtual displays with headless, to be used with selenium tests
It doesn't work because headless keeps spawning displays with new ids, every time I run it. It works if before I start my test I run this with the display id I expect headless to generate
export DISPLAY=:[num]
It's obviously not reliable because if the program restarts it's going to use a new id.
I've tried passing a specific id like the headless docs show and it worked! But only the first time, haha
I don't see xvfb processes hanging after my node process quits.
I also tried node-xvfb with worse results.
I'll link to the libraries I used as soon as I get to a computer
Alien::SeleniumRC says about its start method that "This call will block until the server is killed."
I'd like to use it to start the Selenium server, run some Selenium tests, then shut down the Selenium server--all from a single perl script. What's the simplest clean way of achieving this? (By clean I mean that if something goes wrong, it will shut down the Selenium server on the way out so it doesn't need to be shut down manually.)
I need to handle authenticated multiple users running parallel tests on the selenium standalone server, and discovered two webdriver clients on nodejs. There's webdriver-js and wd-js. Which is more active and reliable? Any experiences? I'm a bit concerned about them breaking down when node or selenium updates or removes features.
I don't think any of those packages mention automatically starting Xvfb on a unique display number per test. So start shell commands to run xvfb before driving the browser?
The following process is what I am trying to build in nodejs (it's essentially like Grid 2 but on nodejs purpose of continuous integration of tests running) and looking for any packages or suggestions for any of the following part.
First authenticate the user(s) using a persistent bi-directional connection (WebSockets or HTTP 1.1)
Start/queue tests requested to run by the user on available hardware nodes (I will add more linux boxes so need a package to distribute parallel tests across the "grid")
Monitor the running selenium browser tests and send client status updates (ex) running/stop)
Tests submitted by the users need to be persistent and accessible for future or continuous integration (couchdb or mysql)
Scheduling of jobs to be run on a continuous basis (ex. run every set interval of time).
Is nodejs a bit overkill? should I focus on Java only for the backside?
https://github.com/LearnBoost/soda
This is for vanilla Sauce Labs/Selenium RC integration. I'd imagine when you're running in a browser instance like Selenium RC, websockets should just work, as the javascript on the page is executed. If you're authenticating a user, you want to just fill out whatever form and submit (which triggers your WS auth) as normal.
I don't think nodejs is overkill for this. Node is lightweight. I don't know that I'd add node to my stack ONLY for this, but its certainly convenient and if you have a commitment to javascript, its no big deal.
I've been looking into this, as far as how I can run selenium browser instances in the background. I found some things about using a virtual GUI instance, or something like that, but it was all for Windows.
I'm using Ubuntu linux so I'm wondering what the easiest way would be to suppress the actual browser instances showing up for the user who started the selenium instances since I am threading like 25 of these, at the moment, and its kind of strange / annoying having all of them open.
Thanks for any advice.
If you are using Firefox you can do *custom path/to/browser --display=:0. If you want to use other browsers and writing your tests in java you can use htmlunit and specify the capabilities. If you are using ruby you can use capybara in a similar way to htmlunit.
There is a possibility to run it in a virtual window system (Xvfb).
You might find something interesting here: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SRC/Selenium-RC+and+Continuous+Integration
There are samples at the bottom of the page.
We're going to try that out pretty soon!
Good luck!