miqsel

Miq Selenium Server

miqsel is a Python CLI utility leaveraging a Selenium container image to efficiently manage a selenium server and provide vnc access.

Prerequisite:

1. Podman/Docker:

   Make sure podman or docker running on your system.

   • Podman Installation
   • Docker Installation

2. VNC Viewer:

   You can choose any vnc viewer but most of user used tigervnc.

   • Fedora:

     sudo dnf install tigervnc
     

   • TigerVNC link for other Distro's

Installation:

pip install miqsel --user

or

 pip install git+https://github.com/digitronik/miqsel#egg=miqsel --user

Usage:

• Help:

  ❯❯❯ miqsel --help
  Usage: miqsel [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
  
    Miq Selenium Server
  
  Options:
    --version  Show the version and exit.
    --help     Show this message and exit.
  
  Commands:
    config    Set Configuration
    executor  Selenium executor URL
    start     Start Selenium Server
    status    Status of Selenium Server
    stop      Stop Selenium Server
    viewer    VNC viewer
    vnc       VNC URL
  

• Status: Check status of selenium container (running/ stopped).

  ❯❯❯ miqsel status
  stopped
  

• Start/Stop:

  ❯❯❯ miqsel start
  Selenium Server started
  
  TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.9.0
  
  ❯❯❯ miqsel stop
  
  Sun Apr 28 12:29:02 2019
   CConn:       End of stream
  Selenium Server stopped
  

  Note: start default invoke vnc-viewer. You can stop it like miqsel start --no-viewer

• Viewer: Take vnc access of selenium server. At the start of selenium server, vnc viewer will be invoked automatically. If the status is running and the viewer is close then viewer command will help to re-open vnc session.

  ❯❯❯ miqsel status
  running
  ❯❯❯ miqsel viewer
  TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.9.0
  

• Executor: Get command executor url

  ❯❯❯ miqsel executor
  http://172.17.0.2:4444/wd/hub
  

• VNC: Get vnc session url

  ❯❯❯ miqsel vnc
  172.17.0.2:5999
  

• Configuration: Manage your miqsel configuration and change default setting as per need.

  ❯❯❯ miqsel config
  Container Engine (auto, podman, docker) [auto]:
  Selenium container image [selenium/standalone-chrome:latest]:
  VNC viewer (auto, vncviewer, vinagre, xdg-open) [auto]:
  Selenium server running on port? [4444]:
  VNC running on port? [5999]:
  Selenium container name [miqsel_container]:
  Selenium container network [default]:
  Selenium container shared Memory [2g]:
  Testing data mount to directory '/data' [default]:
  Configuration saved successfully...
  

  selenium/standalone-chrome:latest is default image. You can use other from SeleniumHQ or custom images.