Headless Browser Testing using HTMLUnitDriver in Selenium

Headless browser helps you to save time and resources as well.
We have couple of browsers available in the market which runs in Headless mode. In this post, we will see how to perform Headless Browser Testing using HTMLUnitDriver in Selenium Webdriver

Check the same article in my blog.

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[vikaspawar]

hi mukesh, I always used to watch ur videos...it's really awesome...u almost clear every concept...but one request to u that can u plz increase the font size so that it will be clearly visible...otherwise thanks bro for giving such good videos for us.

[anushachalana]

Hi Mukesh, Can we use Headless browser testing to perform some actions ?? Like sign in and clicking on some button as we do in all.
I think the answer is NO.
But i want to do some action on web application without showing in GUI like it can perform on backend. Please suggest how to do it

[sachinjaiswal]

Hello Techies,
Following this video we have to have the server standalone JAR else we wont be able to import the suitable file. Don't get confused that if you are having selenium JAR files that would suffice. Standalone JARs are req for this. Keep automating :)
Well explained Mukesh
Also i had a question, upon running i'm getting this error
FAILED: HTMLUnitdriver
Cann
ot locate declared field class
context

[ravi]

hello mukesh and thanks for sharing video with us.i have seen your all video but i have problem with javascript element locating or please could you give demonstration of how to handle javascript in webbrowse.

[dipikakarmakar]

Hi Mukesh, When i tried executing this code i am getting you please assist me on this? using Selenium 2.53.1.

[asmita]

Hi Mukesh, first of all thank you for video
Does HtmlUnitDriver support selenium 2.53.1?
I am not able to find It

[shukrantpatel]

i am facing below error for this video tutorial.
Error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:

at


can u please tell me what will be the issue? i have tried with both TestNg and main method, but for both i am not able to run this 3 lines of code. i have added seperate htmlUnitDriver jar file in project lib. Please solve my query.

[shyamananth]

Very Neat explanation.. Thanks a lot !!

[veeraratna]

Hi Mukesh. Thanks for the video.But how can i confirm that www.facebook.com(Your example) working in all the browsers ? At the moment we are running suite seperately for all each browser

[dwipium]

Hi Mukesh,
is current version of selenium jar did not contain package as I was unable to see this in my imported jars. can u please suggest the workaround.

[sharathchandrauppuluri]

Hello Sir, Isn't it possible to check logging into an application using headless browser? general coding procedure such as finding element by id or by xpath are failing with error "unable to locate the element". So is there any work around on this?

[vivekberlia]

Hi. Thanks for the tutorial. Clicks and submit is not working with Selenium HTMLUnitDriver. I want to do webscrpping without opening browser. How to proceed?

[davidvasanthraj]

Hi Mukesh,

I'm trying to this from my end but the "HtmlUnitDriver();" is not recoganized by eclipse
I have imported the selenium jars to my project too.

WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();

Kindly assist

[khadarbasha]

Hi Mukesh...I need headless using ie.. can we do this?

[huongnguyen-tcof]

I have a problem. I can find element using Xpath with Firefox or Chrome browser. But when i use headless browser (HtmlUnitDriver), i miss error: NoSuchElement Unable to locate a node.
Please help to check this issue. Tks

[blokesh]

Hi Mukesh .. its opening the browser ..but unable to locate element using xpath .. any help? thanks

[prachigoyal]

Hi Mukesh,


I was trying this simple code, but not getting output. Could you please suggest the reason for it ?


public static void main(String[] args) {
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();

System.out.println("Title is:" + driver.getTitle());
}


Output I am getting :
Title is:

[rajeev]

HI Mukesh, How can I upload a file using PhantomJS or HtmlUnitDriver . Pls help

[udaybenake]

Hi mukesh.
Im not getting suggestion to import the HtmlUnitDriver
Please do suggest

[vikaspawar]

Hi mukesh, I have below code snippet for verifying title of page...its absolutely working fine and provides result as "Passed" when i use normal chrome driver...but as soon as i use headless driver like just using chromedriver along with chromeoptions then it always provides result as "Failed". I tried 4-5 times its giving the same....why is so?? please guide me...thank you

public class HeadLessDriverDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Selenium\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Thread.sleep(1000);

String title = driver.getTitle();

if(title.equals("Facebook – log in or sign up"))
{

}
else
{

}


}

}