mac docker container for cross browser testing -selenium

Docker Container For Cross Browser Testing -Selenium Code And Requirements

I am passionate about robotics and embedded systems which motivate me to develop my software and hardware skills.

Our automated tests run fine at our end but occasionally fail when they run on our colleagues and client machines.

Invariably, we trace this sort of failure down to variations in the setupenvironment.

We decided to build a Docker container for running our Selenium tests.

The process was very quick and we decided to help all our fellow testers by sharing how we went about doing it.

Creating a Dockerfile section and directly move on to the step 2 titled as BuildPull the Docker image.

To build a Docker image for running our Selenium tests, we needed to perform the following steps.

Docker Container For Cross Browser Testing -Selenium Code And Requirements

However, your project code and requirements change frequently.

So, we decided to come up with a base image for Selenium which includes the first 5 steps i.e Ubuntu, Chrome with Chrome driver, Firefox with Geckodriver, Xvfb, Python and Python Pip.

A Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the commands a user could execute on the command line to assemble an image.

Dockerfile to build an image which supports testing our Qxf2 Page Object Model.

RUN dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert optgooglechromegoogle-chrome.

RUN dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert optgooglechromegoogle-chrome.real optgooglechromegoogle-chrome.

RUN wget --no-verbose -O tmpgeckodriver.

GECKODRIVERVERSIONgeckodriver-vGECKODRIVERVERSION-linux64.

RUN wget --no-verbose -O tmpgeckodriver.tar.gz GECKODRIVERVERSIONgeckodriver-vGECKODRIVERVERSION-linux64.tar.gz.

To run the Selenium tests using this image, you need to go through following steps.

This selenium test visits Qxf2 Services website and prints the title.

At Qxf2 Services, for testing our Qxf2s Public Page Object Model we use another Dockerfile which automatically gets our code from GitHub, setup our requirements, run shell script file to enable Xvfb and run the test.

Until then enjoy running your tests anywhere without thinking about environment set up using this Docker image.

Mac Docker Container For Cross Browser Testing -Selenium