qxf2rohand/python3-selenium-chrome-firefox repository overview

This image includes:

• Ubuntu 16.04,
• essential basic tools like curl, unzip, wget, Xvfb etc...,
• Installing latest or older versions of Chrome and Chrome driver based on the ARG variables (Example shown below) from website https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-version.php⁠,
• Installing latest or older versions of Firefox and Geckodriver,
• Python 3, and Python3 Pip.

You can use this image for running any python based selenium tests. You can use the regular docker run commands to create a container and just need to setup with selenium and other requirements which are needed to run your tests.

Running the image

$ docker run -it python3-selenium-chrome-firefox:python3

Building your own images

• If you want to build your own images using this Dockerfile for a specific version of chrome you can use below command.

$ docker build -t python3-selenium-chrome-firefox --build-arg CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=2.28 --build-arg CHROME_VERSION=57.0.2987.133 -f Dockerfile .

• If you want to build your own images using this Dockerfile for a specific version of Firefox you can use below command.

$ docker build -t python3-selenium-chrome-firefox --build-arg GECKODRIVER_VERSION=0.19.0 --build-arg FIREFOX_VERSION=59.0.2 -f Dockerfile .

Running python based selenium tests

To run the Selenium tests you need to do the following:

1. Install Selenium

$ pip install Selenium

1. Export display and enable Xvfb using the following 2 commands

$ export DISPLAY=:20
$ Xvfb :20 -screen 0 1366x768x16 &

1. You can also use the sample Selenium code (selenium_sample.py) given below. This test visits Qxf2 Services website and prints the title.

# contents of selenium_sample.py
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.qxf2.com")
print (driver.title)
driver.quit()

1. Run the test using the following command:

python selenium_sample.py

Refer to our blog for more details - https://qxf2.com/blog/building-your-own-docker-images-for-different-browser-versions/⁠