Katie Sissons KSoto

Jenkins, Protractor and Headless Chrome Browser Setup on Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Eric Bidelman has documented some of the common workflows possible with headless Chrome over in https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome.

If you're looking at this in 2016 and beyond, I strongly recommend investigating real headless Chrome: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md

Windows and Mac users might find using Justin Ribeiro's Docker setup useful here while full support for these platforms is being worked out.

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Bash script to setup headless Selenium (uses Xvfb and Chrome)
	# (Tested on Ubuntu 12.04) trying on ubuntu server 14.04

	# Add Google Chrome's repo to sources.list
	echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" \| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

	# Install Google's public key used for signing packages (e.g. Chrome)
	# (Source: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/)

	from collections import defaultdict
	from heapq import *

	def dijkstra(edges, f, t):
	g = defaultdict(list)
	for l,r,c in edges:
	g[l].append((c,r))

	q, seen, mins = [(0,f,())], set(), {f: 0}
	while q:


	# Run the test commands like this:
	xvfb-run npm run protractor