Oops, that should say, "So long as you are *NOT* using a Mac." Mac doesn't
use X11 any longer, which is required for xvfb to work.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Titus Fortner <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Headless gem uses xvfb and it is extremely easy (so long as you are using
> a Mac). It works just as well with chrome as Firefox (and chrome is faster).
>
> Headless gem is a much better solution than phantomjs. I believe chrome is
> still faster than phantom, as well as less buggy. The whole point of going
> through the trouble to do UI testing is to verify a user can actually do
> these things on your site. A real user does not use an emulated browser.
> Google is much more likely to find and fix bugs in their browser and driver
> than the phantom team.
>
> The only place phantomjs might make more sense is if you want to run the
> tests on a machine that does not have a gui at all, but even then,
> recognize the tradeoffs.
> On Jun 18, 2015 7:33 PM, "RM" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have 'headless' gem installed and is running fine with watir-webdriver
>> (it use the default firefox headless).
>> would like to know if anyone has successfully done headless testing with
>> chrome and watir-webdriver?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> RM
>>
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