Parallel execution of automated check via selenium, behave and docker

We were looking for a solution for executing selenium bases scenarios written in behave in parallel to speed up the execution time. Unluckily behave doesn't have this in build like cucumber  fortunately we came across https://github.com/hugeinc/behave-parallel  in which  upstemsync was just couple of weeks old :)

I already had a picture in mind how would the entire step would work so creating  a demo project wasn't too difficult.

Check out https://github.com/mubbashir/behave-selenium 
Following is screen recoding where I had connected to both nodes via VNC and checks were executed in Parallel  on features level

Links:
https://github.com/hugeinc/behave-parallel
https://github.com/behave/behave/
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

Following is what the readme says at the moment:

behave-selenium

Selenium's example using behave

A quick example of python, behave, selenium, webdriver and docker to run prallel tests

• Install docker and create a selenium grid with say 2 nodes
  • docker run -d -p 4444:4444 --name selenium-hub selenium/hub:2.47.1 ## To Run the Hub
  • docker run -d -P --link selenium-hub:hub selenium/node-firefox-debug:2.47.1 ## Run it twice to create 2 nodes, Docker will pick a random name
  • Check the running docker containers

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                     NAMES
34911106818f        selenium/node-firefox-debug:2.47.1   "/opt/bin/entry_point"   2 hours ago         Up 2 hours          0.0.0.0:32769->5900/tcp   condescending_elion
14971ef95408        selenium/node-firefox-debug:2.47.1   "/opt/bin/entry_point"   2 hours ago         Up 2 hours          0.0.0.0:32768->5900/tcp   trusting_mahavira
10688bf744d4        selenium/hub:2.47.1                  "/opt/bin/entry_point"   3 hours ago         Up 3 hours          0.0.0.0:4444->4444/tcp    selenium-hub

• Selenium gird console to have two nodes http://192.168.99.100:4444/grid/console # if you are on mac or on windows get the ip of the running docker vm e.g. docker-machine ip default
• Get port of VNC if you want to connect to a node

docker port <container-name|container-id> 5900
docker port 34911106818f
#=> 0.0.0.0:49338

• Clone the repo
• Create virtulenv $virtualenv env
• Activate the virtualenv and run the requirements file via pip source env/bin/activate; pip install -r requirements.txt
• Export GRID_HUB_URL export GRID_HUB_URL='http://192.168.99.100:4444/wd/hub'
• Run behave --processes 2 --parallel-element feature

Contributing

• Run the requiremetns file in the virtual environment
• Run pre-commit install ## To install pre-commit

Run pre-commit install to install pre-commit into your git hooks. pre-commit will now run on every commit. Every time you clone this project running pre-commit install should always be the first thing you do.

If you want to manually run all pre-commit hooks on a repository, run pre-commit run --all-files. To run individual hooks use pre-commit run <hook_id>.

The first time pre-commit runs on a file it will automatically download, install, and run the hook. Note that running a hook for the first time may be slow. For example: If the machine does not have node installed, pre-commit will download and build a copy of node.

• To Run all pre-commit manually on all file type pre-commit run --all-files
• To run specific hook (via the id in .pre-commit-config.yaml) on specific file(s) pre-commit run flake8 --files bdd_feature_tests/features/steps/dubizzle_homepage_steps.py
• To run autopep 8 manually (which will run automatically once pre-commit is configured) type pre-commit run 'autopep8-wrapper' --files bdd_feature_tests/features/steps/dubizzle_homepage_steps.py