I have several written automated tests in Ruby on Rails that run on Chrome using Chromedriver. I'd like to take those tests and start running them on IEdriver, but currently, when I start the tests, it opens in my local host and states that "This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server"
I've read that this is normal, but given that the first steps of the test is to navigate to our company website, I'm not sure what I need to do to selenium or to my tests to help it navigate to a valid website to start.
All good, it was zoom settings in the ie9 window.
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I recently had a new VM created for Windows 10 and our test automation suite.
After I got everything installed, I ran some of our tests. However, every single time that Selenium launches ChromeDriver, I still see the "What's New" / chrome://Whats-new tab in the browser, then our tests launch in a new tab. The tests seem to work just fine, however, if I do have a failing test, we take a desktop screenshot, and of course, all we see is the What's New tab, not our actual site-under-test.
I do not see the tab when launching Chrome manually, on any user that logs into the box. It only happens with the Selenium-ChromeDriver launched browsers. Even closing the tab while a test is running doesn't permanently remove that tab.
I have never encountered this problem with ChromeDriver before and it's a difficult question to search for answers.
Chrome / ChromeDriver versions: 98.0.4758.82 (which was released on 2/2, but it also happened on the previous version)
Has anyone solved this problem recently?
Try to use chromeOptions.AddArgument("--disable-features=ChromeWhatsNewUI");
When I execute tests using MicrosoftWebDriver for Edge all works fine, but when I minimise the window all tests become failed. Does Edge or MicrosoftWebDriver have any options to avoid that behavior?
As you have been trying to minimise the Browser Window while your Test Execution is In Progress it will be against all the Best Practices. At this point it is worth to mention that as Selenium mocks the User Actions hence Selenium needs Browser focus. If the focus is lost Selenium won't be able to execute the lines of code. Consider the following steps while your Test Execution :
Browser Maximize : While you execute your tests always keep the Web Browser maximized so majority of the elements are within the Viewport
As per best practices, you should try to execute your Test Scripts / Automation Framework in an isolated Test Environment away from Manual Intervention with all the required Software and Hardware configurations and setup.
You can find a detailed discussion in How to run chrome driver in background using selenium with Ruby for Mac OSx?
You also have an option to use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox in Headless version.
For Firefox you can find a detailed discussion in How to make firefox headless programatically in Selenium with python?
For Chrome you can find a detailed discussion in selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH error with Headless Chrome
For Ghost Browser you can find a detailed discussion in Which drivers support “no-browser”/“headless” testing?
My objective is running automation based selenium webdriver from Jenkins, but jenkins cannot open browser when build job. so I modified my code to run in headless mode. since implementing headless browser, having some big question
is possible to handle end to end business on headless browser? cause end to end need inspect element as the process
if headless browser cannot handle, do you have some suggestion?
thanks, I'm very low to integrate automation
You don't have to change the code to run a Selenium test with Jenkins in headless mode.
You can use a Jenkins plugin of a headless X server to run your tests on an installed browser. You will even get screenshots.
I have a project suite of automation tests that uses Protractor and Jasmine. As of a couple months ago, my tests stopped working in FireFox. Everything works perfectly in Chrome, and almost perfectly in IE.. because why would IE work ya know.
There have been multiple posts about this and I've read through all of them, but I haven't been able to determine if there's a workaround/solution to this. It's not entirely a HUGE deal if my tests run in FireFox, but with a web application it's mighty nice to be able to test all instances.
Basically what happens when I run a test in FireFox:
Command prompt acts like everything is about to run properly (FireFox driver starts up.. server remains running etc etc)
Firefox opens for a split second (icon appears on the task bar, browser flashes on the screen and closes)
After a good minute or so protractor gives me the following message:
[firefox #01-0] WebDriverError: Unable to connect to host XXX on port XXX
after 45000 ms.
With a ton of DEBUG lines referring to JSON files and Firefox addons.
Any thoughts or other sources I could check out would be sweet. Many thanks in advance.
Problem is with latest Firefox support from latest selenium-server. Use geckoDriver and it will work.
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I am writing test scripts in Selenium IDE for my application but everytime when I run the test suite it opens up browser and performs all the actions and logs failures, if any. My requirement is to invoke the test script from command prompt using .bat file and generate a test report. I am able to do the same but the problem is firefox opens up and executes the test case one by one. Can anyone please suggest me how to disable Firefox window from opening up? Or is it just not possible to do so? Or do I need to switch to Selenium Webdriver in order to achieve my requirement? My application contains Ajax upto a lot of extent.
I have read many commands used in Selenium IDE but I could not find any command which can serve this purpose. Please suggest!
If you know any programming language supported by selenium-webdriver (Ruby, Java, Python, C#) then you should try PhantomJS WebDriver which allow to run scripts without opening visual browser session
Selenium-IDE are mean to invoke browser, that's how the script react to all the exact browser behavior.
Only selenium Webdriver allow you to run your browser under "Headless" mode, which in fact, put Firefox under X-virtual frame buffer in background, as above #Andersson suggested.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to convert your Selenium-IDE script to your desire programming language at the moment.
If your concern is about "cluttered screen" in OS such as ubuntu, then your solution will be export the whole Selenium-IDE and firefox under another virtual X-display.