Instructions on how to make behat (with mink) use the phantomjs webdriver to run headless browser tests

behat-phantomjs-webdriver.md

Making behat use phantomjs for the tests

If you want to run it on phantomjs (a headless browser) you can add this profile to your behat.yml and you need phantomjs >= 1.8.0

phantomjs:
    extensions:
        Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
            base_url: http://dev.local
            goutte: ~
            selenium2:
                wd_host: "http://localhost:8643/wd/hub" 

    formatter:
        name:               pretty,html
        parameters:
            output_path:    null,jm_behat_report.html

start up the phantomjs web driver using: $ phantomjs --webdriver=8643

then run using:

$ ./bin/behat -p phantomjs

Note: You don't need to have selenium running as it communicates directly with the webdriver server that phantomjs/ghostdriver starts

Note2: apparently there is also a way to have it run by registering with a selenium hub and requesting the browserName 'phantomjs' but I couldn't get it to work, see https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver#register-ghostdriver-with-a-selenium-grid-hub or the copied instructions below

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1. Launch the grid server, which listens on 4444 by default: java -jar /path/to/selenium-server-standalone-2.25.0.jar -role hub
2. Register with the hub: phantomjs --webdriver=8080 --webdriver-selenium-grid-hub=http://127.0.0.1:4444
3. Now you can use your normal webdriver client with http://127.0.0.1:4444 and just request browserName: phantomjs

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save my day ;)

Any idea if xpath is working with phantomjs? Because it never returns elements in my case. Thanks!

Thanks!

I have that problem @jverdeyen! Did you ever get a solution?

I don't have that problem. I have a problem with remembering to specify the profile to behat, because I don't have a default base_url.

I had same problem with phantom but in my case I had something else alreaby bind to 8080, changing port helped.

Thanks .. It's a clear one.

If you are testing against an https base url and running a self-signed certificate, you will want to start the server with an additional --ignore-ssl-errors=true flag:

phantomjs --webdriver=8643 --ignore-ssl-errors=true

Otherwise i was getting enigmatic ElementNotFoundException errors for all my features / profiles.