Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#29883 closed New feature

Support running remote Selenium tests with runtests.py — at Version 1

Reported by: Tom Forbes Owned by: nobody
Component: Testing framework Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Tom Forbes)

Currently runtests.py supports running Selenium tests using a local browser only. This can make running tests against specific versions quite hard.

Selenium supports a feature called 'hub': ​https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/wiki/Getting-Started-with-Docker-Compose#python. This allows you to spin up multiple different browsers as docker containers, or connect to remote cloud-hosted ones.

A hub backed webdriver is compatible with a local one, so no tests need to be updated. A flag could be added to runtests.py specifying a hub URL, and then a WebDriver is created from that URL.

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comment:1 by Tom Forbes, 6 years ago

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