Running against selenium
NOTE: This documentation assumes you are already familiar with Selenium. To learn more about Selenium, visit the documentation
NOTE: To run the selenium example, start selenium server and then run:
cargo run --example selenium_example
Below, you can find my recommended development environment for running selenium tests.
Essentially, you need three main things set up as a minimum:
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Selenium standalone running on some server, usually localhost at port 4444.
For example,
http://localhost:4444 -
The webdriver for your browser somewhere in your PATH, e.g., chromedriver (Chrome) or geckodriver (Firefox)
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Your code that imports this library
If you want you can download selenium and the webdriver manually, copy the webdriver
to somewhere in your path, then run selenium manually using java -jar selenium.jar.
However, this is a lot of messing around, and you'll need to do it all again any time either selenium or the webdriver gets updated. A better solution is to run both selenium and webdriver in a docker container, following the instructions below.
Setting up Docker and Selenium
To install docker, see https://docs.docker.com/install/ (follow the SERVER section if you're on Linux, then look for the Community Edition)
Once you have docker installed, you can start the selenium server, as follows:
docker run --rm -d -p 4444:4444 -p 5900:5900 --name selenium-server -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm selenium/standalone-chrome:4.1.0-20211123
For more information on running selenium in docker, visit docker-selenium