I am trying to find a full list of Selenium RC browser launchers. So far I've not been able to find any documentation that lists them all. I've gathered the following ones from various sources.
*iexplore - Launches IE
*firefox - Launches Firefox
*safari - Launches Safari
*opera - Launches Opera
*googlechrome - Launches Google Chrome
*chrome - Launches special Firefox profile with elevated security privileges, to bypass Javascript security errors
*iehta - Launches IE with elevated security privileges
*piiexplore - Launches IE in proxy injection mode
*pifirefox - Launches Firefox in proxy injection mode
*custom - Launches your own custom browser executable
Are there any others lurking out there? Is there any source of documentation on how each one is used?
If you try and start a selenium session with the wrong browser id
e.g.
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", server.getPort(),
"*gf", "http://www.eviltester.com");
Then selenium 1.0.3 will report the following list:
Supported browsers include:
firefox
mock
firefoxproxy
pifirefox
chrome
iexploreproxy
iexplore
firefox3
safariproxy
googlechrome
konqueror
firefox2
safari
piiexplore
firefoxchrome
opera
iehta
custom
This lists a few more than you have.
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I'm attempting to execute a TestCafe suite on locally installed Safari. I have previously executed the tests on chrome, chrome:headless, firefox, and firefox:headless. When running the command testcafe --list-browsers to retrieve my list of installed browsers, I receive the following:
testcafe --list-browsers
Using locally installed version of TestCafe.
firefox
chrome
safari
When I execute a simple test via command line, testcafe safari path/to/tests/, the Safari browser will launch, but no navigation takes place. I remain on the launch window (showing my favorites and recently visited pages).
When the same command is executed for a different browser (say, testcafe chrome path/to/tests/), the tests are executed in the local browser.
Am I missing something that is required to get Safari up and running with TestCafe? I'm using TestCafe version 1.6.1. I'm not seeing any additional setup mentioned on the TestCafe documentation...
I was able to resolve this issue by disabling all uses of TestCafe Browser Tools in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Automation. On my subsequent execution, I was prompted to allow TestCafe Browser Tools for Safari. After accepting the prompt, the tests ran as expected.
I also had deleted my node_modules directory and reinstalled dependencies, although I'm skeptical if that helped.
I would like to run some Selenium tests in Firefox, using the device simulation feature to test for mobile devices.
For Chrome, this is exposed through ChromeDriver, but FirefoxOptions doesn't seem to have any such option, and my search for any related profile preference or command-line option didn't turn up anything.
Is there a way to do this in Firefox? I'd prefer it to Chrome because the built-in device list of Chrome seems to be very outdated.
I'm trying to automate a webpage in selenium on a chrome browser which is integrated into a TeamCity server.
The code is working perfectly in my local machine.
File upload is done with Autoit scripts but when running through TeamCity on chrome browser ,typically as a headless chrome browser ,the script fails as it fails to find the next element(The file uplod fails).
This is not possible...
Headless browser cannot interact with os components(open dialog box)
You can use sendkeys to input field(browse button),which will not trigger open dialog box, since the browser is headless and you can skip using Autoit for headless browsers, which needs a Gui.
When running tests, I would like not to be bothered by Chrome popping-up every time Behat launches a scenario needing Chrome.
I know there is a maximizeWindow() method for session objects, but nothing like "minimize".
Nowadays, you can set Chrome to run in headless mode like so (behat.yml):
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension:
javascript_session: browser
sessions:
browser:
selenium2:
browser: chrome
capabilities:
chrome:
switches:
- "--headless"
You could run Chrome with a virtual framebuffer, so that the window appears on a virtual screen instead of your real screen.
This also allows to easily run your tests on a headless machine, such as a build server.
On Linux, we're using xvfb for this particular purpose. More info: How To Run Your Tests Headlessly with Xvfb
For Windows, see Is there anything like xvfb or xnest for Windows?
Seems there is no method for launching in background. maximizeWindow is for setting the resolution.
You should try to run in a virtual machine or on another PC in order to avoid this kind of issues, popups and interacting by mistake with the window that runs automation.
Running on the same machine should be done when writing new tests and when debugging.
I found an acceptable solution for this that didn't require me to run Chrome headless or in a virtual machine.
Simply log in with a secondary user account on your local machine, and run selenium on that account. Then, switch back to your main user account and run your tests. The chrome browser will be created under the user running selenium and you will never see the chrome windows pop up.
How do I run test cases made with Selenium IDE (Firefox Plugin) in a headless browser?
When I create test cases with the firefox plugin it saves them as .html files.
I am trying to setup a way of running them in a headless browser, (using phantomJS or another tool/lib). I have seen many people mention running firefox in a hidden frame, but this is not the same as headless (ie. PhantomJS)
I have already figured out how to run selenium test cases from command line, but only in firefox or ie, I can't get it to run .html testcases on phantomjs:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.39.0.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://127.0.0.1" "ts-ProjectList/TestSuite.html" "ProjectList-results.html"
I know the IDE can export test cases in different languages, but I want non-tech team members to be able to create tests using the firefox plugin.
Have you looked at http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/headless-functional-testing-with-selenium-and-phantomjs--net-30545?
Changing "*firefox" to phantomjs should get you started.
You'll need the phantomJS driver:
http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/py/webdriver_phantomjs/selenium.webdriver.phantomjs.webdriver.html