Running Selenium Tests on a headless Jenkins Server

                            QA needs to execute their daily Sanity Tests on Jenkins. To run Selenium Tests we need a machine connected to monitor. And if we don't have such an arrangement then we can follow the steps below to run Selenium Tests on a headless Jenkins Server.

Never run daily runs on tools like Saucelabs.com or browserstack as its a costly affair.

1. Install Xvfb on Jenkins Server

yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb

2. Install Firefox on Jenkins Server

yum install firefox

3. Install https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Xvfb+Plugin on Jenkins

4. In you Job, configure as follows

5. When you run the Job, it will create a screen and execute tests on that screen with GUI

Enjoy your daily runs now :)

~ Yagnanarayana Dande