Using Google Chrome for Behat and Selenium2 Testing

This is rather quick. First of all, you need a fully working Behat and Selenium2 setup working, using Firefox as default. Once you achieved this, we can change it to use Google Chrome.

First, download chromedriver at https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver and put it somewhere like /data/lib/chromedriver. Once done, we run our Selenium2 java jar file like this:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="/data/lib/chromedriver"

Then in our behat.yml file, we set the browser setting like this.

default:
    extensions:
        Behat\MinkExtension:
            base_url: someurl
            goutte: ~
            default_session: goutte
            javascript_session: selenium2
            browser_name: 'chrome'
            zombie:
                node_modules_path: 'somepath...'
            selenium2:                   
                capabilities: { "browserName": "chrome", "browser": "chrome", "version":  "29", 'chrome': {'switches':['--no-sandbox']}}

That’s it. It should launch Chrome instead of Firefox.

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if you get an exception : reverse the order , so instead of adding -Dwebdriver in the end , add it directly after the -jar , then write the selenium jar

java -jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=”/data/lib/chromedriver” selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar

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