Laravel and Selenium with Chrome using Codeception

<p>So, I've been trying for the longest time to get Laravel Tests to work with Selenium and Chrome. I tried checking out the Laravel Integrated package and in the repo it says that much of the Laravel Integrated package has been included in Laravel core:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/laracasts/Integrated" target="_blank">https://github.com/laracasts/Integrated</a></p> <p>But I have been unsuccessful on integrating Selenium with my tests. So instead I went with Codeception. http://codeception.com</p> <p>Codeception has some amazing documentation and they even have a section that describes how to install it for laravel: <a href="http://codeception.com/for/laravel">http://codeception.com/for/laravel</a></p> <p>So, here's what I did after going through the quick start guide.</p> <ol style="margin-left:30px"> <li>Create a simple test file</li> <li>Download selenium and chromedriver</li> <li>Start selenium with chromedriver</li> <li>Run our&nbsp;test</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>1. Create a simple test file</strong></p> <p>I created a new file located in '<em>tests/acceptance/HomeRouteCept.php</em>', which contained the following small bit of code:</p> <pre class="language-php"><code>&lt;?php

$I = new AcceptanceTester($scenario); $I->wantTo('Testing out the homepage route'); $I->amOnPage('/');</code></pre>

<p><strong>2. Download selenium and chromedriver</strong></p> <p>Next we need to download the Selenium Server file located at: <a href="http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/" target="_blank">http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/</a></p> <p>Then, you will also need to download the chromedriver located at: <a href="http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html</a> (choose the latest folder and download the driver)</p> <p><strong>3.&nbsp;Start selenium with chromedriver</strong></p> <p>In order to start selenium we would typically write the following command:</p> <pre class="language-java"><code>java -jar selenium-server.jar</code></pre> <p>But if you get a command that it does not recognize the 'java' command you will need to download java from <a href="https://www.java.com/en/download/" target="_blank">https://www.java.com/en/download/</a>, you may also need to add it to your PATH file, which is explained here <a href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/165022/problem-with-installing-java-java-command-not-found" target="_blank">http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/165022/problem-with-installing-java-java-command-not-found</a></p> <p>After it recognizes the command we should be able run the following command to start Selenium Server:</p> <pre class="language-java"><code>java -jar selenium-server.jar</code></pre> <p>But that's not all.</p> <p>We also want to be able to run it with the chromedriver so we will use the following command instead:</p> <pre class="language-java"><code>java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=./chromedriver -jar selenium-server.jar</code></pre> <p>And now that the server is running. Let's run our test.</p> <p><strong>4. Run our test</strong></p> <p>Next, navigate to your terminal and run the following command inside of your laravel app:</p> <pre class="language-markup"><code>vendor/bin/codecept run</code></pre> <p>And low and behold, you'll see chrome open up and open your home route. Then inside of your terminal you will get a green pass message that your tests have run successful!</p> <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/g78bg86.png" alt="" width="100%" height="auto" /></p> <p>Now I can get a real time play of what my tests are doing. Now, you will probably want to use a headless browser like phantonjs when running these tests with continuous deployment apps and you could even run Phantomjs browser on your machine when you don't want it to open up in chrome.</p> <p>But, if there is a way to get Laravel tests running with chrome and selenium, please feel free to post your solution below.</p> <p>Thanks!</p>