testing-browsers.md

Testing Chrome

Docker compose config:

chrome:
    # 3.0.0-dubnium
    privileged: true
    image: selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.0.0-dubnium
    ports:
      - '4444'
      - '5900'
    # workaround for Docker Beta, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/issues/227#issuecomment-224865735
    dns: 8.8.4.4
    environment:
      - no_proxy=localhost
    # workaround for https://github.com/elgalu/docker-selenium/issues/20#issuecomment-133011186
    volumes:
      - /dev/shm:/dev/shm

Makefile eg. open-chrome

$(OPEN_CMD) vnc://x:secret@$(DOCKER_HOST_IP):$(shell $(DOCKER_COMPOSE) port chrome 5900 | sed 's/[0-9.]*://')

Testing with Internet Explorer or Edge

Download

• Download Windows VM from http://modern.ie
• Download and install Java in Windows VM https://java.com/de/download/
• Download selenium-standalone and IEDriver.exe from http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
• Extract driver to "Windows" or another directory PATH

Setup

Virtualbox

Add Host-Only network and find your IP with ipconfig in Windows command prompt

For IE11, add registry keys

32 bit

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE" /v iexplore.exe /t REG_DWORD /d 0

64 bit

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl" /v FEATURE_BFCACHE /t REG_DWORD /d 0

See also http://elgalu.github.io/2014/run-protractor-against-internet-explorer-vm/ for setting IE options in GUI.

Usage

Run in elevated (as Administrator) command prompt to start to selenium server

cmd
cd Downloads
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar

Selenium config for Codeception

config:
    WebDriver:
        host: 192.168.99.1
        port: 14444
        url: http://192.168.99.1:10081/
        browser: 'internet explorer'
        window_size: 1024x768
        restart: restart

💡 Example uses forwarded ports on the host machine to Selenium on the Windows VM and the web server used for testing in Docker.

Examples

Use locator to find elements in e2e tests

    $node = Locator::contains('span', $this->uniqid);
    $I->click($node, '.kv-tree-container');

Resources

• https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver