is possible run selenium with headless browser to handle functionalities?

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My objective is running automation based selenium webdriver from Jenkins, but jenkins cannot open browser when build job. so I modified my code to run in headless mode. since implementing headless browser, having some big question

is possible to handle end to end business on headless browser? cause end to end need inspect element as the process
if headless browser cannot handle, do you have some suggestion?

thanks, I'm very low to integrate automation

Headless is not exactly like normal chrome, few things like download files, add extension, are not yet allowed. So it may or may not work depending on tests you are executing — Tarun Lalwani
– Tarun Lalwani, Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 9:33
so headless just handle small part of automation ? @TarunLalwani — Prasetyo Budi
– Prasetyo Budi, Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 10:40
Again based on your requirement, there are test suites which completely run on Headless, its just what all your test suites need, even few websites for some reason don't work fine in headless, so you have try and see if it works for you — Tarun Lalwani
– Tarun Lalwani, Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 11:07
Instead of trying to run with headless mode. you can find the cause for not opening browser when building the job. — Murthi
– Murthi, Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 12:19
i thought jenkins not able to open browser so our test could be fail. i tried it before. so i just need many suggestion to make the continues integration that handle end to end functionalities @Murthi — Prasetyo Budi
– Prasetyo Budi, Commented Sep 12, 2017 at 2:13

Würgspaß · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-11 11:25:56Z

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You don't have to change the code to run a Selenium test with Jenkins in headless mode.

You can use a Jenkins plugin of a headless X server to run your tests on an installed browser. You will even get screenshots.

answered Sep 11, 2017 at 11:25

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Prasetyo Budi Over a year ago

i dont need to remove firefox driver ?

Würgspaß Over a year ago

No. With that setup firefox sends its graphical output to an X server which is headless on Jenkins. Locally you can run the same code with graphical output.

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