Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook - Second Edition

Running tests in headless mode with PhantomJS

PhantomJS is a headless Webkit-based browser. We can use PhantomJS in conjunction with Selenium WebDriver to run basic functional tests.

In this recipe, we will set up and use PhantomJS to run a simple test.

Getting ready

You will need PhantomJS binary for this example. You can download the appropriate binary from http://phantomjs.org/.

In this example, the Windows version of PhantomJS is used.

You will also need to add a dependency in the maven pom.xml file, as follows:

  <dependency>
      <groupId>com.github.detro</groupId>
      <artifactId>phantomjsdriver</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.0</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

How to do it...

Let's create a new test PhantomjsTest that uses PhantomJS to run a test ...