run selenium grid

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install JDK

1.install chocolatey

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

2.open new cmd window and run

choco install jdk8

Get Selenium and PhantomJS

1. Download Selenium (Java) http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ and place the JAR file in a folder
2. Download PhantomJs http://phantomjs.org/download.html and place it in the same folder note: there is a nasty bug in PhantomJS, so I needed to apply [https://gist.github.com/neuro-sys/41e368839a9b20dafb34](this fix)
3. place start-selenium-grid.ps1 in the same folder

Run

Execute start-seleniumgrid.ps1, optionally can proivde the commandline argument 'instances' the change the number of PhantomJs instances

start-selenium-grid.ps1

 param (
    [string]$instances = 10
 )
 
# config
$scriptpath = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
$dir = Split-Path $scriptpath
$seleniumPath = """" + $dir + "\selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar" + """"
$phantomPath = $dir + "\phantomjs.exe" 
$startport = 8000

 # Start Selenium Hub
 Start-Process java -ArgumentList "-jar $seleniumPath -role hub" 
 
 # Start PhantomJs instances
 Start-Sleep -Seconds 10

 $i=0
  while($i -ne $instances)
     {
       $port = $startport + $i
       Start-Process -FilePath $phantomPath -ArgumentList "--webdriver=$port --webdriver-selenium-grid-hub=http://127.0.0.1:4444"
       $i++       
     }