Chrome on Windows vs Linux

[EyalC]

Hi All,

I want to build Selenium grid that all nodes running chrome&Firefox on Linux (because it better, faster & can use Docker).

Now, since most of my customers are using Windows, I need to know what are the differences between running my tests on Chrome on Linux and running Chrome on WInodws?

Running my tests only on linux is good enough?

Could it effect my UI functional tests if the OS platform is different?

Thanks,

[PeterJeffreyGale]

Chrome at least is a different binary for Windows and Linux o/s, so I don't think anyone could definitely say that testing on Linux alone is sufficient, and the differences may change from release to release.

I would suggest developing your tests against Linux, if you see that as a faster option, and only then running tests against windows when all the issues found by running on Linux are ironed out, so that you minimise the time spent executing/tweaking tests in the slower environment.