Embedded selenium server

[mendrinos]

What are you trying to achieve?

When I first got started; I was getting the error: Couldn't connect to selenium server

Then, I typed:
phantomjs --webdriver=4444

And my test scripts are running.

In sake of simplicity; shouldn't be nice to have a selenium server running on the fly on every codeceptjs execution? Why I should manually open a separate selenium server?

It would be easier for developers to run one command and see a headless execution outcome quickly..

Would be great to see a solution around this sometime soon :)

Thanks!

[DavertMik]

There are so much different servers and depending on your needs you can choose:

• selenium webdriver + different browsers
• headless selenium in docker
• phantomjs
• nightmare

the last one, btw starts the way you ask to: without external command, you need to use Nightmare helper for that.

I have some ideas on implementing different runners for different servers but didn't have time yet to implement them

[DavertMik]

If curious here are my thoughts on better implementation of this feature #191 (comment)

[mendrinos]

Fantastic!

[kobenguyent]

Possibly, we have wdio-selenium-services and selenoid plugin (#2131) solve this.