Selenium Server 3

[Andrew Halliday]

Hi there

Wondering if anyone has had any luck using: selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta3.jar

I can run selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar perfectly well with FF 46.0.1 on a Windows 2012 Server

I run 2.53.1 with a command:

echo on

cd \

cd C:\SeleniumServer

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar

pause

but I have read that the 3 version requires you to explicitly call the firefox driver but I am struggling with the command

I downloaded the geckodriver and tried this:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta3.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.marionette=C:\SeleniumServer\geckodriver.exe

and this:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta3.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.driver=C:\SeleniumServer\geckodriver.exe

but I just get an error: Exception in thread "main" com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException: Unknown option: -Dwebdriver.firefox.driver=C:\SeleniumServer\geckodriver.exe

The reason I am looking at the latest version is that I run about 350 tests overnight.

The tests themselves take about 6 hours to run on the server, although with the starting and stopping of the browser between tests the total elapsed time is more like 10 hours.

(unfortunately I can't make shorter tests as it is part of a journey that requires end to end with lots of different options in between).

I was hoping that the new version might be quicker.

Anyone know of any other ways of optimising the setup to make things run faster?

Thanks for your help

[Ramesh P]

Hi Andrew,

 I also faced the same issue. I think for using the Gecko driver you have to upgrade your JAVA version to 8.
I didn't get time to do the same

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[Andrew Halliday]

Hi

I'm a bit nearer now thanks to this post:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/2571

It seems you need to swap the 2 parts around:

java -jar -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=C:\jartest\geckodriver.exe selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta3.jar 

This now works - I will test out on SEBuilder next.

[Ramesh P]

Hi,

When i tried this command 

PS D:\BuilderFiles> java -jar -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=D:\BuiderFiles\geckodriver.exe selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta4.jar

Its displaying the following Error:

"Error: Unable to access jarfile .gecko.driver=geckodriver.exe"

Kindly Help

Regards,
Ramesh