touchcast-selenium

A Docker project to run your own Selenium Grid and watch the tests fly via VNC.

Ensure you have all the Docker tools already installed.

Manual build process:

cd hub
docker build --no-cache -t selenium/hub .

cd ..
cd chrome
docker build --no-cache -t selenium/chrome .

cd ..
cd firefox
docker build --no-cache -t selenium/firefox .

cd ..
docker-compose up -d

Now you should have 3 containers running, verify this by going:

docker ps

Automatic build process:

Use the alternative docker-compose.yml.prebuilt by renaming it to docker-compose.yml

Then run:

docker-compose up -d

Now you should have 3 containers running, verify this by going:

docker ps

Yay, you have it running:

Selenium Grid Console is now available at:

<docker ip address>:4444/grid/console

To view what's going on, use VNC - Macs have "Screen Viewer" built-in, just type this into your favourite browser:

vnc://<docker ip address>:5900 - to connect to the Firefox container
vnc://<docker ip address>:5901 - to connect to the Chrome container

The password to connect to VNC is:

secret

If for some reason VNC service dies, connect to container and restart service:

docker exec -it <container name> bash

And then run:

x11vnc -forever -usepw -shared -rfbport 5900 -display ":99.0" &
exit

Both Firefox and Chrome containers use VNC on port 5900, it's only you connecting via Docker on 5901 on the Chrome container, so don't go changing the VNC port on the container itself or the port mapping will fail!

Now you can use your Selenium Grid for testing.