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 >> >> -- >> -- >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> [email protected] >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Watir General" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
