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PLEASE NOTE

0 - IT'S NOT DONE! The only commands implemented are the one used by the examples/google_cheese/ directory

1 - It's still experimental

2 - Not ready for Production

3 - Only 13 of the >90 WireProtocol Commands implemented

4 - I released it to get people interested in contributing. Not to provide a solution: it's not ready yet!

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Ghost Driver

Ghost Driver is a pure JavaScript implementation of the WebDriver Wire Protocol for PhantomJS. This aims at providing a Remote WebDriver that uses PhantomJS as back-end.

Requirements

• PhantomJS version >= 1.6
• Maven 3 (optional - makes it easy to build & run the examples)

How to use it

There is plenty to do before this is usable, but if you can't wait to try PhantomJS's speed when it acts as a RemoteWebDriver Server, do the following:

1. Start GhostDriver on a terminal:

   $> phantomjs ghostdriver/src/main.js
   Ghost Driver running on port 8080

2. Build and Launch the first Java-based example (Maven required):

   $> cd ghostdriver/examples/google_cheese/
   $> ./mvnexec.sh
   ...
   [INFO] Building ghostdriver 1.0
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO]
   [INFO] >>> exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:java (default-cli) @ google_cheese >>>
   [INFO]
   [INFO] <<< exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:java (default-cli) @ google_cheese <<<
   [INFO]
   [INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:java (default-cli) @ google_cheese ---
   *** USING GHOSTDRIVER ***
   Loading 'http://www.google.com'...
   Loaded. Current URL is: 'http://www.google.co.uk/'
   Finding an Element via [name='q']...
   Found.
   Sending keys 'Cheese!...'
   Sent.
   Submitting Element...
   Submitted.
   Page title is: Cheese! - Google Search
   Time elapsed (ms): 1531
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
   ...

3. Enjoy

For a quick speed comparison with other WebDriver implementations, try passing the parameter firefox or chrome to the ./mvnexec.sh script.

Reasoning: pros and cons

Pros of using an Headless browser for your Selenium testing

• Speed
• Speed makes development faster
• Speed makes THE developer happier
• Speed makes leaves more time for beer, video-games, cycling or whatever you fancy
• ...

Cons of using an Headless browser for your Selenium testing

• PhantomJS is not a "Real" Browser, just very very close to it
• ...

Contributions

You can contribute testing it and reporting bugs and issues, or submitting Pull Requests. Any help is more than welcome!!!

License

GhostDriver is distributed under BSD License.