How to execute browser less testing in Selenium

Question

I am currently using Selenium RC for testing. Now in order to perform a load test, I want to run parallel test cases. Is there any way to run the test cases without opening a browser?

Answer 1

First, you need to install:-  install PhantomJS.

After that change the line: driver = webdriver.Firefox()  to: driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()

The rest of your code need not be changed and no browser will open.

For debugging purposes, use driver.save_screenshot('screen.png') at different steps of the code or just switch back to Firefox again:

if os.getenv("environment") == "production":
    driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
else:
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()