Running Selenium headless without using xvfb

Question

I\'m trying to run Selenium headless (without the browser appearing). Other questions have pointed to xvfb as the tool to do this. However, it appears highly unstab

Answer 1

Run chrome browser with --headless, also it allows you to reduce resource usage.Use ChromeOptions.addArguments("--headless", "window-size=1024,768", "--no-sandbox") to achieve it. This scheme assumes installed the Chrome browser and Chromedriver.

Here is my simple Selenium java test that is use in my Jenkins job

    package com.gmail.email;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class FirstTest {
    private static ChromeDriver driver;
    WebElement element;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void openBrowser(){

        ChromeOptions ChromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
        ChromeOptions.addArguments("--headless", "window-size=1024,768", "--no-sandbox");
        driver = new ChromeDriver(ChromeOptions);
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }

    @Test // Marking this method as part of the test
    public void gotoHelloWorldPage() {
        // Go to the Hello World home page
        driver.get("http://webapp:8080/helloworld/");

        // Get text from heading of the Hello World page
        String header = driver.findElement(By.tagName("h2")).getText();
        // Verify that header equals "Hello World!"
        Assert.assertEquals(header, "Hello World!");

    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void closeBrowser(){
        driver.quit();
    }
}

More details here https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/issues/429