Connect your local browser using Selenium Grid

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Connect your local browser using Selenium Grid

Using QAautoMATER, you can connect to your local browser to run test scripts.We need to setup selenium grid on local system.

There are some prerequisites for running test scripts on local browser.

Prerequisite:

JDK

JDK should be installed on the system. You can check if they are installed correctly by using the following commands: java -version.

if it is not installed then installed from given below link

Selenium Server Grid

Download selenium server from the selenium site

Browser driver exe

Chrome

We need to install a browser driver. For Chrome, we need to install chromedriver.exe; for Firefox, we need to install geckodriver.

Please note your local browser version and for same version install correct chromedriver file.

Firefox

We can download geckdriver as per system firefox version from given below link

Microsoft Edge

Edge driver exe can be downloaded from given below link

Tunnel Setup

There are multiple publicly available tunnels. Here are the options:

1. Serveo,

2. ngrok,

3. localtunnel.

You can use any of these tunnels. For Serveo, no installation is required as it works over SSH. For the other tunnels, installation is required.

In case you're using ngrok, the command to use is:

npm install ngrok -g

In case you're using localtuunel, the command to use is:

npm install -g localtunnel

Please note : Performance wise ngrok is better.

Connect your local browser using Selenium Grid

Step 1

Create any folder without any space in your system and paste your downloaded Selenium server with browser driver exe file for all browser (Note Down your path address)

Step 2

Create a toml file with name browser-config ,extension should be .toml

Step 3

Open browser-config toml file and paste the given below content content

[node]
detect-drivers = false

[[node.driver-configuration]]
max-sessions = 1
display-name = "QAautoMATER Chrome"
stereotype = "{\"browserName\": \"chrome\"}"
webdriver-executable = "D:\\QAautoMATER_Local_Execution_Configuration\\chromedriver.exe"

[[node.driver-configuration]]
max-sessions = 1
display-name = "QAautoMATER firefox"
stereotype = "{\"browserName\": \"firefox\"}"
webdriver-executable = "D:\\QAautoMATER_Local_Execution_Configuration\\geckodriver.exe"

[[node.driver-configuration]]
max-sessions = 1
display-name = "QAautoMATER Edge"
stereotype = "{\"browserName\": \"MicrosoftEdge\"}"
webdriver-executable = "D:\\QAautoMATER_Local_Execution_Configuration\\msedgedriver.exe"

For Each webdriver-executable section , update your chromedriver.exe, geckodriver.exe and msedgedriver.exe path , Make sure Path should be same as step 1 also use two backward slashes for putting the path. save this file.

Step 4

Create batch file with name launchSeleniumGrid with extenson .bat and paste given below content

REM //############ Launch code ########################################
SET Servername=selenium-server-4.18.1.jar
start cmd /k java -jar %Servername% standalone --config browser-config.toml

Please make sure Servername should be same as your downloaded server name

Step 5

After saving launchSeleniumGrid.bat file , double click on bat file and see console log to make sure selenium grid is up and running , we can see log in console

You can also check Grid status using given below URL

Step 6 ( Tunnel Setup) --- Select your tunnel depending on your network and security constraints

Tunnel Setup for Serveo

Open new command prompt and run the given below command

ssh -R 80:localhost:4444 serveo.net

after running the command , you will get the public URL , copy this URL

Tunnel Setup for localTunnel

Open new command prompt and run the given below command

lt --port 4444

localtunnel will expose the port 4444 and provide URL which can be access anywhere , copy this URL and open in new tab

for tunnel password , open given below URL

Copy this password and click to submit button

Tunnel Setup for ngrok

Create an account on ngrok

on dasboard page , you will get the command for authtoken , copy the code and run the command in command line

run the following command

ngrok http 4444

you will get the forwarding url , paste in UI configuration page and run your test scripts

Step 7

Go to the Configuration page, click on Add Local Grid button from Cloud Server setup section

Provide your local grid name and click Save button , after saving the details , grid name will be displayed in Execution Server listbox section, Update hub Url (Provided bu localltunnel) from step 6 and Save

Step 8

Now your local grid will be available on Test script page, execution lab page , after selecting your grid test execution will happend on your local browser

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