Running on a Selenium Grid

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TDK Feature

This is not supported in Testim's visual editor.

Testim supports running your code in the following ways:

• Locally - in this case, Testim will automatically install a driver for Chrome and run your code.
• Remotely - on a selenium Grid.

It is technically possible to run your tests in a Chrome instance directly in your CI and indeed doing so with Testim will work. We do not recommend it because while it has some advantages like reducing latency - your CI server is not aware of how much resources the browser uses. This means that it does not scale and it generally provides an inferior experience than using a proper browser grid.

We recommend running your tests on a Selenium grid. Note that this does not mean that Testim will run your tests with Selenium necessarily - only that Selenium Grid is the method used in order to control starting and stopping the browser and the test.

Actual Technical How-To

The easiest option would be to run:

npm run ci

In your Testim Code generated project. This will automatically look for a grid called testim-grid which you can configure from the Testim UI. This also integrates with third-party grids seamlessly like Saucelabs or BrowserStack.

Alternatively, you can run Testim Code on a grid by passing the --host and --port options. For example, running a test locally on Firefox can be done with:

# webdriver manager is installed from npm
$ webdriver-manager start &
$ testim -f ./test.js --host localhost --port 4444 -b firefox

You can pass any valid Selenium grid here. Note that this implies that the grid needs to be reachable from your browser.

More examples

# grid name - preferred and more maintainable
$ testim -f ./tests/*.js --grid testim-grid
# grid host and port - also supported
$ testim -f ./tests/*.js --host http://example.com/grid --port 4444 
# local grid assuming webdriver-manager is running
$ testim -f ./test.js --host 127.0.0.1 --port 4444