Identifying and Fixing Bugs in AWS Deployment of Selenium Grid: A Comprehensive Guide

Selenium grid on AWS signifies automated testing capabilities across multiple environments. Deployment on AWS is always advantageous because you will perform parallel executions as well as leverage services like Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) or AWS Fargate for container orchestration. Just like any other complex system, deploying Selenium on AWS may encounter bugs. So, this article is designed to give you the best solution.

Common issues during AWS deployment

1. If your network configuration has problems, or you have incorrect environment variables your nodes never register with the hub.
2. By using the same browser instance multiple times session management errors always occurred.
3. If your network is slow or network resources constraints your test failed because of time out.
4. Your test also failed when changes in application state or timing issues occurred.

How to Identify and Fix Bugs

Activity 1: Check Logs for Errors

First, troubleshooting always starts with checking the log files, if you are deployed with the help of ECS or Fargate try to access logs…