Merge pull request #920

webui: set some options on chromedriver

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ and since Bareos version 20 this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https:
 - Windows release package now ships source code as optional component, so there is no need for a debug-package anymore [PR #858]
 - postgresql filedaemon plugin: switched from psycopg2 to pg8000, dropped support for python2.
 - version information was moved from core/cmake/ and webui/cmake/ directories into the toplevel cmake/ directory [PR #861]
+- add chromedriver options to improve reliability of selenium tests [PR #920]
 
 ### Deprecated
 
@@ -196,4 +197,5 @@ and since Bareos version 20 this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https:
 [PR #914]: https://github.com/bareos/bareos/pull/914
 [PR #918]: https://github.com/bareos/bareos/pull/918
 [PR #919]: https://github.com/bareos/bareos/pull/919
+[PR #920]: https://github.com/bareos/bareos/pull/920
 [unreleased]: https://github.com/bareos/bareos/tree/master

webui/tests/selenium/webui-selenium-test.py

@@ -246,6 +246,12 @@ def setUp(self):
                     + "-"
                     + SeleniumTest.testname
                 )
+                # Set some options to improve reliability
+                # https://stackoverflow.com/a/55307841/11755457
+                opt.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
+                opt.add_argument("--dns-prefetch-disable")
+                opt.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
+
                 # test in headless mode?
                 if self.chromeheadless:
                     opt.add_argument("--headless")