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Run Selenium Test on Docker Container

Overview

In this tutorial, we will learn the steps involved to run a Selenium Test on a Docker container. A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone package of software that includes everything needed to run an application. Docker Image becomes Docker Container on the runtime when run on the Docker Engine.

Docker Containers

Docker Hub

Open a web browser and Navigate to the Docker Hub.

https://hub.docker.com/

We can find Docker images on the Docker Hub. Docker Hub is an image library. It’s like a repository of the Docker images.

Search Docker Hub for Selenium image. There would be several images in the search results. Each one is used for a specific purpose. Choose selenium/standalone-chrome Docker image to run a test on Google Chrome Browser.

 

Docker Hub Standalone Chrome

 

Alternatively, to run a test on the Mozilla Firefox browser, choose the image: selenium/standalone-firefox. In this tutorial, we will use Chrome image. We will run a simple Selenium test on the Google Chrome browser

Pull the Docker Image

$ docker pull selenium/standalone-chrome

 

docker pull command

We can use the Docker images command to check the images on the local repository.

$ docker images

Docker Local Repository

Start Docker Container

Run the following command:

$ docker run -d -P selenium/standalone-chrome

Check the container details with docker ps list container utility.

$ docker ps

 

docker ps command

Sample Selenium Test

The sample test will launch Mantis bug tracker URL and just print the Title of the login page on the console. Use a RemoteWebDriver instance to test against the Grid on the docker container. Since the test and the container runs on the same machine, we have used

http://localhost:49153/wd/hub

Listening port might vary. 49153 is the listening port on my machine. The docker ps command output would have the details to verify.

We will use the Chrome browser in Selenium Test. Instantiate ChromeOptions object and pass it to the RemoteWebDriver instance. ChromeOptions is used to set capabilities and customization of Chrome browser in Selenium.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

URL remote = new URL(“http://localhost:49153/wd/hub”);

WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(remote, options);

 

Selenium Test On Docker

Code Snippet

import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import java.net.URL;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

public class SeleniumOnDockerTest {

 @Test
 public void MantisTestOnDocker() throws Exception {
 ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
 URL remoteURL = new URL("http://localhost:49153/wd/hub");
 WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(remoteURL, options);
 driver.get("https://www.TestingDocs.com/mantis");
 System.out.println(driver.getTitle() + 
" \nwww.TestingDocs.com -Selenium Tutorials");
 System.out.println("Test was run on Docker container. 
Check the Docker Logs!");
 }
}

Sample Output

Selenium Test on Docker Container

 

Check the Grid logs in the container. Any errors can be debugged using the logs.

Docker Logs

This step might vary on the Docker setup. On Windows, the easiest way is to launch the Docker Desktop application, select the container and click on LOGS tab to views the container logs.

 

Docker Logs TestingDocs

 

That’s it. We have successfully run a selenium Test on Docker.

Related

In this tutorial, we have run a test using a single Container. We can scale this to distributed testing using Selenium Grid using multiple containers.  To learn more:

Selenium Grid with Docker

https://www.testingdocs.com/selenium-grid-setup-with-docker-containers/

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Selenium Tutorials

Selenium WebDriver Tutorials on this website can be found at:

https://www.testingdocs.com/selenium-webdriver-tutorial

For more details on the Selenium, visit the official website at:

https://www.selenium.dev/

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