How much resources to allocate for a VM running a selenium remote control

Not sure if this belongs here or on stackoverflow… When I run my selenium tests, the cpu usage on the (windows) VM running the selenium RC goes up to 100% cpu usage for about a third of the time. I thought maybe I’m not allocating enough resources to the VM. How much resources would you … Read more

Setting up Selenium and PHPUnit on Ubuntu16

I’m trying to setup Selenium to run with a PHP binding. I keep getting this message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnknownServerException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver. I get this when I do clean installs of Codeception, PHPUnit and Steward [re-installed the … Read more

Jenkins builds not marked unstable/failed if PHPUnit fails

So, the title pretty much gives it away. We’re using Jenkins 2 with PHPUnit 6.5.12 and a couple of days before, everything worked fine. Now, every build we do and has failures (or worse, errors) in the PHPUnit section is not marked as unstable / failed at all. For tests, we’re using PHPUnit + Selenium … Read more

Firefox and Chrome headless mode not working on VPS (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) with Python/Selenium

I am trying to get Chrome running in headless mode with Python, but for some reason I only get a blank page back no matter what website I try to read. Google Chrome: v77 Chromedriver: latest version (tried older versions as well) OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Virtual Server) After doing some research for a couple … Read more

Google Compute Selenium intermittent connection issue

I’m trying out Google Compute. I have an issue I never saw on AWS. I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 / Codeception / Selenium / Chromedriver / Chrome to run a simple acceptance test. The thing is, it fails randomly. Without changing anything, I can either fail or pass the test. I never had this happen on … Read more

Redirections, but only on a certain web browser

I have found some cheap SEO pages, whose only purpose is to promote some other sites by feeder links. On Chrome and Safari and Firefox, they show the SEO web page, but on Kiwi Web Browser on my Android phone, the page is redirected to “Congratulations! You may be our next lucky winner!”. How does … Read more

Selenium Grid Helm Chart: Can I Run Multiple Versions Of Chrome Concurrently?

I am hosting a Selenium Grid instance in a Kubernetes cluster that was installed using the standard Helm chart. Things are working well but I don’t see any value that can be used to install multiple versions of Chrome or Firefox. Has anyone else tried this? Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Tom … Read more