Does Selenium support headless browser testing?

Question

I\'m looking at Selenium Server at the moment, and I don\'t seem to notice a driver that supports headless browser testing.

Unless I\'m mistaken, it doesn\'t support

Answer 1

Here's a "modern answer" on how to use Selenium with xvfb and Firefox driver in an Ubuntu Linux environment running Django/Python:

# install xvfb and Firefox driver
sudo su
apt-get install -y xvfb firefox
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.19.1/geckodriver-v0.19.1-linux64.tar.gz
tar -x geckodriver -zf geckodriver-v0.19.1-linux64.tar.gz -O > 
/usr/bin/geckodriver
chmod +x /usr/bin/geckodriver

# install pip modules
pip install selenium
pip install PyVirtualDisplay

You can then follow the Django LiveServerTestCase instructions.

To use the driver you just installed, do something like this:

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver import WebDriver

driver = WebDriver(executable_path='/usr/bin/geckodriver')
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600)).start()

# add your testing classes here...

driver.quit()
display.stop()