selenium-install

This script performs the following

• Required
  • java
  • firefox - could install chrome too. Need to configure the node.json to handle that
  • xvfb - frame buffer X server for running headless
  • fluxbox simple window manager, without this we cannot maximize the browser window meaning that we may not get the browser big enough to move out of "mobile" view
  • selenium server jar
  • user to run as, these files expect selenium with a group of selenium
• Install apps
  • sudo apt-get install firefox
  • sudo apt-get install xvfb
  • sudo apt-get install fluxbox
• Install Selenium Server
  • add user
    • sudo useradd -M -s /bin/false -U selenium -d /opt/selenium
  • wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.40/selenium-server-standalone-2.40.0.jar
  • sudo mv selenium-server-standalone-2.40.0.jar /opt/selenium/ && sudo ln -s /opt/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.40.0.jar /opt/selenium/selenium-server.jar
  • upload hub.json and node.json to /opt/selenium
  • upload selenium-node.sh and selenium-hub.sh to /etc/init.d
  • sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/selenium-hub.sh && sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/selenium-node.sh
  • sudo /etc/init.d/selenium-hub.sh start
  • sudo /etc/init.d/selenium-node.sh start
  • sudo update-rc.d selenium-hub.sh defaults
  • sudo update-rc.d selenium-node.sh defaults 25

Troubleshooting

The above will run the node on display :10, you can capture a screenshot (after installing imagemagick) with: $ import -display :10 -window root ~/image.png

You can also have your PageObject take a screenshot, but it will only be the browser. I found the browser was too small to render desktop mode for OE, that is why I needed the above.