Is there a way to run Selenium tests on a remote host?

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I would like to run the following setup:

on host_1, execute some Selenium tests
on host_2, run Firefox

(On host_1 there would be a Jenkins instance running the tests and host_2 would be a Docker container running on host_1, and Firefox would run headless, using xvfb - but this shouldn't be relevant for the question)

To run on the same host, I would just do:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/path/to/geckodriver");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://google.com/");
driver.quit();

But I would like the Selenium tests to use the Firefox instance on the other host. Is that possible?

Have you looked into Selenium Grid? https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/Grid2 — jonrsharpe, Nov 21 '16 at 08:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '16 at 09:02

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Use Selenium Grid. Check this link for detailed documentation.

answered Nov 21 '16 at 09:02

Shubhasmit Gupta

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '16 at 08:30

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Selenium Standalone Server

The Selenium Server is needed in order to run Remote Selenium WebDriver.

answered Nov 21 '16 at 08:30

Master Azazel

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Is there a way to run Selenium tests on a remote host?

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