What is difference between Xvfb and Chromedriver and when to use them
- chromedriver - to run tests on chrome browser (with GUI).
- Xvfb - to run tests in headless mode. can be any browser including chrome (Browser GUI won't be displayed, so you can use the machine for some other operations).
code snippets (python):
Chrome Driver (download here):
browser = webdriver.Chrome() // to launch tests in Chrome browser.Xvfb - using pyvirtualdisplay (python wrapper for Xvfb) :
from pyvirtualdisplay import Displayfrom selenium import webdriverdisplay = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))display.start()# now Chrome will run in a virtual display. # you will not see the browser.browser = webdriver.Chrome()browser.get('http://www.google.com')print browser.titlebrowser.quit()display.stop()References: