Selenium : Use Selenium-side-runner to run tests in parallel in windows ?

So in this article we will be looking into selenium-side runner which is basically a command line tool that will run the selenium tests recorded by selenium-ide

STEPS :

1. Record any browser automation using selenium-ide extension , then add a test suite and in the settings of the test suite check the option for the parallel execution of the tests.

2. If we run these tests using the selenium-ide it will run in the browser and it will run in serial fashion

How to run install selenium-side-runner ?

1. Selenium-side-runner is the cli tool that will help us to run the tests in parallel.

2. For this we need node, and then we need to run the below mentioned command

npm install -g selenium-side-runner

1. We also need chromedriver, or geckodriver to run our tests

npm install -g chromedriver

npm install -g geckodriver

1. Now run your test suite :

selenium-side-runner -c "browserName=firefox" projectName.side

1. This should run your test but sometimes we can see any issue with the version of the chromedriver or geckodriver compatibility with the browser versions

How to fix the geckodriver version issue. ?

1. We can download the binary from the github repo and that we can add in the path in windows and that will solve this issue. :)

Some more articles

https://www.qafox.com/new-selenium-ide-configuring-command-line-runner-side-runner/

https://www.qafox.com/new-selenium-ide-parallel-execution-of-tests-using-command-line-runner/

https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads