Selenium Grid - From Scratch - Deployment & Configuration

download latest Selenium Standalone & setup initial folders layout

https://www.seleniumhq.org/

download latest IEDriverServer.exe & setup initial folders layout

https://www.seleniumhq.org/

download latest chromedriver.exe & setup initial folders layout

http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

download latest geckodriver.exe & setup initial folders layout

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

download latest MicrosoftWebDriver.exe & setup initial folders layout

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/

download latest Node.js & setup initial folders layout

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

download latest java-jdk, setup initial folders layout & install

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Update 2018-11-18

Since I have found some issues with Selenium & Java 11+ it is recommended to use JDK 8 instead and not the version I show in this lecture. The installation and download process is the same, so you can follow the lecture, just make sure to download the supported version.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

to find out what is the recommended java version, please visit here (scroll a bit down to see which JDK to use):

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium#selenium--

other than that, all versions and tools in the course are valid

setup environment variables to allow automaton

JAVA_HOME

download latest Android SDK CLI & setup initial folders layout

https://developer.android.com/studio/

download latest Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager & setup initial folders layout

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-intel-haxm

install HAXM to allow android emulator to run properly

install all relevant android-sdk package to allow mobile-native & mobile-web automation

command line

sdkmanager.bat "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26" "platforms;android-27" "platforms;android-28" "emulator" "system-images;android-28;google_apis_playstore;x86"

install all relevant android-sdk package to allow mobile-native & mobile-web automation

command line

sdkmanager.bat "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26" "platforms;android-27" "platforms;android-28" "emulator" "system-images;android-28;google_apis_playstore;x86"

setup environment variables to allow mobile-native & mobile-web automaton

ANDROID_HOME

%JAVA_HOME%\bin

download Python 2.7.8, setup initial folders layout & install

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/

setup python under environment path

add all relevant entries into path system variable

create an android emulator for mobile-native & mobile-web automation

command line

avdmanager.bat create avd -n auto-deployed-avd -k "system-images;android-28;google_apis_playstore;x86" -p D:\automation-env\android-device

install appium-doctor package to insure and check for appium environment setup problems

command line

npm install appium-doctor

install appium allows mobile-web & mobile-automation locally or via selenium grid

command line

npm install appium

create configuration file for selenium grid hub role

configuration

{

    "host": "localhost",

    "maxSessions": 5,

    "port": 4444,

    "cleanupCycle": 5000,

    "timeout": 300000,

    "newSessionWaitTimeout": -1,

    "capabilityMatcher": "org.openqa.grid.internal.utils.DefaultCapabilityMatcher",

    "throwOnCapabilityNotPresent": true,

    "nodePolling": 180000,

    "servlets": [],

    "prioritizer": null,

    "platform": "WIN10"

}

create configuration file for selenium grid node role

configuration

{

    "capabilities":[

    {

        "webdriver_firefox_port":  9513,

        "seleniumProtocol":  "WebDriver",

        "marionette":  true,

        "maxInstances":  1,

        "platform":  "WIN10",

        "browserName":  "firefox"

    },

    {

        "seleniumProtocol":  "WebDriver",

        "platform":  "WIN10",

        "browserName":  "chrome",

        "maxInstances":  1

    },

    {

        "seleniumProtocol":  "WebDriver",

        "platform":  "WIN10",

        "browserName":  "internet explorer",

        "maxInstances":  1

    },

    {

        "seleniumProtocol":  "WebDriver",

        "platform":  "WIN10",

        "browserName":  "MicrosoftEdge",

        "maxInstances":  1

    }

],

    "proxy": "org.openqa.grid.selenium.proxy.DefaultRemoteProxy",

    "maxSession": 4,

    "port": -1,

    "register": true,

    "registerCycle": 5000,

    "hub": "http://localhost:4444",

    "nodeStatusCheckTimeout": 5000,

    "nodePolling": 5000,

    "role": "node",

    "unregisterIfStillDownAfter": 60000,

    "downPollingLimit": 2,

    "debug": false,

    "servlets" : [],

    "withoutServlets": [],

    "custom": {}

}

create configuration file for selenium grid appium node

configuration

{

    "capabilities":[

    {

        "platform": "ANDROID",

        "deviceName":  "android-device-web",

        "nativeDevice": false,

        "platformVersion": "5.1.1",

        "maxInstances": 1,

        "browserName": "chrome"

    },

    {

        "appActivity": ".Calculator",

        "platformVersion": "5.1.1",

        "platform": "ANDROID",

        "deviceName": "android-device-native",

        "appPackage": "com.sec.android.app.popupcalculator",

        "browserName": "android",

        "maxInstances": 1,

        "applicationName": "popupcalculator",

        "nativeDevice": true

    }

],

    "configuration":

    {

        "cleanUpCycle": 2000,

        "timeout": 30000,

        "proxy": "org.openqa.grid.selenium.proxy.DefaultRemoteProxy",

        "host": "localhost",

        "port": 4723,

        "maxSession": 1,

        "register": true,

        "registerCycle": 5000,

        "hubPort": 4444,

        "hubHost": "localhost"

    }

}

create the batch file to run selenium hub

command line

java -jar D:\automation-env\selenium-server-standalone-3.141.5.jar -role hub -hubConfig D:\automation-env\configurations\config-hub.json

create the batch file to run selenium node

command line

java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver="D:\automation-env\web-drivers\geckodriver.exe" -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="D:\automation-env\web-drivers\chromedriver.exe" -Dwebdriver.ie.driver="D:\automation-env\web-drivers\IEDriverServer.exe" -Dwebdriver.edge.driver="D:\automation-env\web-drivers\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe" -jar "D:\automation-env\selenium-server-standalone-3.141.5.jar" -role webdriver -port 5566 -nodeConfig D:\automation-env\configurations\config-node.json

create the batch file to run appium node

command line

appium -a localhost --nodeconfig D:\automation-env\configurations\config-node-appium.json

create the batch file to run the whole grid

command line

start D:\automation-env\batch-files\run-hub.bat

start D:\automation-env\batch-files\run-node-appium.bat

start D:\automation-env\batch-files\run-node.bat

create the batch file to run android emulator

command line

D:\automation-env\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe start-server

D:\automation-env\android-sdk\emulator\emulator -avd auto-deployed-avd -netdelay none -netspeed full

check list of how to replicate the automation environment to other machines

1. copy automation-env to new computer ( on the same partition)

2. install python

3. install HAXM

4. install java

5. configure config-hub.json

6. configure config-node.json

7. configure config-node-appium.json

8. configure run-node-appium-bat

9. delete .android folder if exists

10. reinstall android image

11. re-create repositories.cfg

12. set JAVA_HOME

13. set ANDROID_HOME

14. set path

send requests to your grid in order to make sure all drivers and tool are properly working

postman download page

https://www.getpostman.com/apps

attend an error which happens when there is no available chrome-driver for mobile-web (android)