Testing with headless chrome

The new headless feature in Chrome 59, makes it easy to run gauge with selenium on a CI/CD setup or Docker instances without having to use xfvb.

Java

For Maven add the following dependencies to pom.xml.

For Gradle add dependencies to build.gradle

webdrivermanager is a library that automatically downloads and manages chromedriver.

Initialize WebDriver with arguments for headless mode and run tests.

Ruby

If you are using bundler add this to your Gemfile

And initialize a driver

Gauge

Gauge sets all of this via project templates!

For a maven selenium project run

$ gauge init java_maven_selenium
$ cd <projectdirectory>
$ headless=Y gauge run specs

Or for setting up a ruby project

$ gauge init ruby_selenium
$ headless=Y bundle exec gauge run specs

Screenshot on failure

By default, Gauge captures the screen display. In headless mode, the browser is not launched into a display, use getScreenShotAs method in WebDriver to capture the browser’s screenshot instead.

For Gauge, implement a custom screenshot handler.

Have fun setting up tests in headless mode!