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chrome browser test on Linux Soatest Server

asingh
asingh Posts: 14 ✭
in SOAtest

Hi Facing difficulties running my browser tests on SoaTest Server running as war on tomcat.
The document I read was not very clear with servers.

I tried Starting Xvfb buffers in the beginning, but it did not work

export DISPLAY=:0
Xvfb :0 &

and stated the execution but no luck.

Can you please guide me with proper steps?

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  • jakubiak
    jakubiak Posts: 813 admin

    Did you follow the instructions in the documentation here: https://docs.parasoft.com/display/SOA9105/Running+Web+Scenarios+in+Headless+Mode?

  • asingh
    asingh Posts: 14 ✭

    Yes, I created this file on my redhat server

        #!/bin/sh

    # Use $@ to pass along any argument specified by SOAtest.
    # The $@ will include the display on which to run the server.
    # Currently this is always display :32.  You can override this
    # by adding another display number as the last argument.

    # There can be problems with graphics libraries if you do
    # not set the display depth to greater than 8 using the
    # -screen argument.

    # Make sure to run Xvfb with 'exec' so that SOAtest will
    # kill the correct process.

    XVFB_DIR=`dirname $0`
    exec ${XVFB_DIR}/Xvfb_Linux.bin \
      -ac \
      -sp /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy \   -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc \
      -co /usr/share/X11/rgb \
      -screen 0 1024x768x24 \
      $@

    When I execute this file it gives error of unrecognised option

  • jakubiak
    jakubiak Posts: 813 admin

    Can you share the exact error message?

  • asingh
    asingh Posts: 14 ✭
    edited August 2018

    Hi Below are my detailed observation:

    1. I am using SoaTest/Virtulize war on tomcat and rhel 7
    2. I fixed the problem when I switched to the parasoft native browser in headless mode.
    3. When I swichted back to selenium web driver in headless mode it does not even calls the Xvfb_Linux

    Looks like this is a problem of headless browser with selenium web driver.

  • jakubiak
    jakubiak Posts: 813 admin

    Thanks for the update. My apologies - I missed that you are using WebDriver. Headless mode is not currently supported for WebDriver. From the documentation - https://docs.parasoft.com/display/SOA9105/About+the+Selenium+WebDriver+Engine:
    "Selenium does not support playing back scenarios in headless mode. If headless mode is selected, the scenarios will still play back in visible mode."

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