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I'm looking at Selenium Server at the moment, and I don't seem to notice a driver that supports headless browser testing.
Unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't support it. If you're on X, you can create a virtual framebuffer to hide the browser window, but that's not really a headless browser.
Can anyone enlighten me? Does Selenium support headless browser testing?
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What is Headless testing? Headless testing is simply running your Selenium tests using a headless browser. It operates as your typical browser would, but without a user interface, making it excellent for automated testing.
You can run Google Chrome in headless mode simply by setting the headless property of the chromeOptions object to True. Or, you can use the add_argument() method of the chromeOptions object to add the –headless command-line argument to run Google Chrome in headless mode using the Selenium Chrome web driver.
Therefore, you need to set the desired screen size with an additional argument: ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();options. addArguments("--headless", "--window-size=1920,1200");WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
Both Firefox, as well as Chrome Browsers, support Headless automation testing which is an implementation of the code in Firefox and Chrome without GUI.
you need not use PhantomJS as an alternative to Selenium. Selenium includes a PhantomJS webdriver class, which rides on the GhostDriver platform. Simply install the PhantomJS binary to your machine. in python, you can then use:
from selenium import webdriver
dr = webdriver.PhantomJS()
and voila.
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The WebDriver API has support for HTMLUnit as the browser for your testing. Ruby people have been using Capybara for a while for their headless selenium testing so it is definitely doable.
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I know this is a old post. Thought it will help others who are looking for an answer.
You can install a full blown firefox in any linux distribution using XVFB. This makes sure your testing is performed in a real browser. Once you have a headless setup, you can use webdriver of your choice to connect and run testing.
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