Running Selenium tests with PhantomJS and GhostDriver

This recipe introduces GhostDriver, an implementation of the WebDriver wire protocol, and explains how to use it to run Selenium tests with PhantomJS as the target browser.

Getting ready

To run this recipe, we will need Selenium available on our system; our recipe will use version 2.39.0 of the Selenium Java server, but we must use version 2.33.0 or later to be able to use GhostDriver. Our examples in this recipe will use the Java bindings for Selenium.

Note

Selenium is a big enough topic on its own to be an entire book, so we will not dive in deep here. As such, this recipe assumes that we already have some knowledge of Selenium as a testing utility.

Also, as we use the Selenium Java bindings, we assume at least some basic knowledge of Java.

To simplify working with Java, we will need Maven installed and on our PATH.

Note

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool that can be used to simplify working with and building Java...