Tutorial 34 – View Selenium Tests Running in VNC Viewer
Let us now see how to see our tests running in vnc client viewer.
First of all install VCN viewer client from the below official page (simple straightforward installation)
https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/
Start docker engine by double clicking docker desktop icon
Wait for the docker engine to start.
Currently we don’t have any images and containers running
Go to hub.docker.com and search for selenium/standalone.
Click the below image
Copy the below pull command
Paste it in terminal and append :latest at the end.
Execute below command
We now have the image
Next we will create container. To do that, go to https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium and scroll down a bit, you would see ‘Debugging’ section
Copy the below command
Paste it in notepad. Retain only the below portion and append :latest at the end
Copy the above command, paste an execute
Notice that the container is running at port 5900
Let us now open vnc viewer
Using vnc client viewer, we will connect to docker container.
Execute ipconfig command to find ip address of your m/c
In the vnc viewer address bar, enter <ip ad>:5900
Hit Enter
Click Continue
Enter password as secret (mentioned in official documentation)
Click Ok
You would be connected to container, see below. You can now see your tests running on the docker container
Let us execute the below test
Notice below that the test executes in VNC viewer
So this is how you can view the tests running on vnc client viewer!
Similarly, you can see the tests running on firefox and edge browsers by creating the respective containers using the below commands
Code snippet
package sel4scripts;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
public class GridStandaloneMode {
public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, InterruptedException {
ChromeOptions opt = new ChromeOptions();
//FirefoxOptions opt = new FirefoxOptions();
//WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("https://192.168.33.1:4444"),opt);
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4444"),opt);
driver.get("http://google.com");
driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Learning Standalone grid");
Thread.sleep(3000);
System.out.println("Test executed successfully");
}
}
Thank you for reading!
