{"id":4697,"date":"2018-03-11T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2018-03-11T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:10:16","slug":"webdriver-chrome-firefox-headless-load-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/webdriver-chrome-firefox-headless-load-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"WebDriver Chrome and Firefox Headless Load Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have introduced support for WebDriver headless testing with Chrome and Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Using headless browser testing allows running more concurrent user tests by not requiring virtual terminals to simulate a real desktop screen.\u00a0 It should improve CPU consumption and allow running the same test on smaller instance size or perhaps more users on larger instance sizes.\u00a0 Chrome and Firefox are still heavy on CPUs in general but we will take any advantage we can get \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Running WebDriver Headless Testing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To learn more about running webdriver tests read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/using-selenium-webdriver-run-scalable-load-tests\/\">Using Selenium WebDriver to Run Scalable Load Tests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To use Chrome and Firefox in headless, just select the appropriate option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4698 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/webdriver-headless-testing-support.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/webdriver-headless-testing-support.png 901w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/webdriver-headless-testing-support-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/webdriver-headless-testing-support-768x448.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Performance Metrics for Chrome and Firefox<\/h2>\n<p>We recently added support for Firefox real-time metric support, you can learn more by reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/capturing-api-performance-data-firefox-chrome-webdriver-test\/\">Capturing API Performance Data from Firefox or Chrome during Webdriver Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big change that can give you a real-time\u00a0view of\u00a0performance data while your webdriver load test is running in Firefox<\/p>\n<h2>Updated Version Support<\/h2>\n<p>We do try to stay current with the latest components to run webdriver tests.\u00a0 \u00a0Version support includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ChromeDriver 2.3.6<\/li>\n<li>GeckoDriver\u00a00.19.1<\/li>\n<li>PhantomJS 2.1.1<\/li>\n<li>Chrome\u00a0 65.0<\/li>\n<li>Firefox\u00a058.0.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have introduced support for WebDriver headless testing with Chrome and Firefox. 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