Selenium 3/Firefox

[welly]

Spent a little bit of time trying to figure out getting Selenium 3 working with Firefox to get behat tests with javascript working (using Firefox). Turns out it's pretty simple!

This role installs the latest version of Firefox which needs to use the GeckoDriver to operate with Selenium. You can download it from:

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Secondly, installing Selenium standalone version 3.0.1 works with no configuration.

So, in my config.yml I have:

selenium_version: 3.0.1
selenium_install_firefox: yes

and I created a post-provision script which looks like:

#!/bin/bash

GECKO_VERSION="0.11.1"
GECKO_DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.11.1/geckodriver-v$GECKO_VERSION-linux64.tar.gz"
GECKO_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/tmp"
GECKO_NAME="geckodriver"
GECKO_PATH="/usr/local/bin"
GECKO_FULL_PATH="/usr/local/bin/$GECKO_NAME"

if [ ! -e "$GECKO_FULL_PATH" ]; then
wget -qO- $GECKO_DOWNLOAD | tar xvz -C $GECKO_DOWNLOAD_DIR
sudo cp -a $GECKO_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$GECKO_NAME $GECKO_PATH
else
exit 0
fi

This installs the driver in a location that selenium can find it. Simple as that and it appears to be working as expected.

[welly]

Of course, this is a little bit redundant as I've since found out that this role is using chrome by default :) But still, might be of interest to someone!

[heddn]

I found that the geckodriver has some significant bugs (for me) that make it unusable. So I have to use chrome until gecko gets more mature.