Selenium with Headless Chrome on Travis CI

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Headless Java notes from yesterday:

https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/headless-execution-selenium-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/494442/fake-x11-display

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/headless-1...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32862344/what-is-the-dif...

https://github.com/nimmis/docker-java/tree/master/openjdk-8-...

In some contexts it might be easier to use my project https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver which requires Java/JavaFX (no external browser bin). Chrome Headless is a godsend though.

Interesting project :D

For my project, I just drove headless chrome w/ the debug API (remote debugging protocol) directly from Python--it was very straightforward.

Headless chrome makes much of these existing frameworks redundant, IMHO. Unless you have a suite of existing test cases in some framework, I'd consider just driving Chrome directly and skipping the overhead and external dependencies.

Isn't the goal of Selenium/WebDriver to allow for some level of standardization in interacting with different headless browsers?

If you're only interested in ever testing in Chrome, great. But headless Firefox is in the release pipeline (I think it's being tested in Nightly?).

It workds pretty well, except for the download functionality.

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