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Manages Selenium Server 2 - Standalone and Grid
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jhoblitt/selenium — version 1.1.0 Aug 8th 2015

Puppet selenium Module

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Description
  3. Usage
  4. Why Another Module?
  5. Limitations
  6. Versioning
  7. Support
  8. Contributing
  9. See Also

Overview

Manages Selenium Server 2 - Standalone and Grid

Description

This is a puppet module for installation and configuration of the Selenium Server 2 browser automation package. Support is provided for configuring Selenium Server in standalone mode or as a Selenium grid with composed of the hub and node modes.

The design intent of this module is to only manage Selenium server and not any of the other packages that might be required to required to create a selenium server profile/role.

Usage

The selenium::server class is used to setup a standalone Selenium instance to allow the use of a single server as a test node. The selenium::hub class acts as a proxy in front of one or more selenium::node instances. A hub + node(s) setup is referred to as a Selenium grid. Running selenium::server is similar to creating a Selenium grid by declaring selenium::hub and selenium::node on the same host.

It is highly recommend that you read the Selenium Grid documentation to determine what the best approach for your usage case(s) is.

Simple

Stand alone server setup with display :99 (default is :0).

class { 'selenium::server': display => ':99' }

Grid in a box setup with the Selenium node talking to the hub via 127.0.0.1.

class { 'selenium::hub': }
class { 'selenium::node': }

Example "profiles"/"roles"

Here are some examples "profiles" and "roles" based on Craig Dunn's blog post on Designing Puppet – Roles and Profiles..

These examples assume the presence of these two modules in your Puppet environment.

Selenium Server Profile

class mysite::profile::seleniumserver {
  include java

  # WSXGA+ 1680x1050 -- should nicely fit on a 1920x1280 screen
  class { 'display':
    width  => 1680,
    height => 1050,
  } ->
  class { 'selenium::server': }

  Class['java'] -> Class['selenium::server']
}

Selenium Hub Profile

class mysite::profile::seleniumhub {
  include java

  class { 'selenium::hub': }

  Class['java'] -> Class['selenium::hub']
}

Selenium Node Profile

class mysite::profile::seleniumnode {
  include java

  # WSXGA+ 1680x1050 -- should nicely fit on a 1920x1280 screen
  class { 'display':
    width  => 1680,
    height => 1050,
  } ->
  class { 'selenium::node':
    # If your intending to have node(s) that don't sit on the same system as
    # the hub, you need to point the node at a hub by passing in the hub's url
    # in or using an exported resource from the hub system. Eg.
    # hub => 'http://<myseleniumhub>:4444/grid/register',
  }

  Class['java'] -> Class['selenium::node']
}

Selenium Server Role

class mysite::role::seleniumserver {
  include mysite::profile::seleniumserver
}

Selenium Hub Role

class mysite::role::seleniumhub {
  include mysite::profile::seleniumhub
  include mysite::profile::seleniumnode
}

Files

Unless class selenium has $install_root changed from the default, these files paths will be used. Note that the log files and init scripts are only created for the relevant configured service.

The log files are set to mode 0644, so that they can be inspected by users other than the selenium role account.

/opt/selenium
|-- jars
|   `-- selenium-server-standalone-x.xx.x.jar
`-- log
    |-- hub_stderr.log
    |-- hub_stdout.log
    |-- node_stderr.log
    |-- node_stdout.log
    |-- server_stderr.log
    `-- server_stdout.log
/var/log/selenium -> /opt/selenium/log
/etc/init.d/seleniumhub
/etc/init.d/seleniumnode
/etc/init.d/seleniumserver

Classes

selenium

This class controls common configuration values used by the selenium::{server,hub,node} classes. It is automatically included in the manifest by those classes and it need not be explicitly declared except to override the default values.

# defaults
class { 'selenium':
  user               => 'selenium',
  manage_user        => true,
  group              => 'selenium',
  manage_group       => true,
  install_root       => '/opt/selenium',
  java               => 'java',
  version            => '2.45.0',
  url                => undef,
  download_timeout   => '90',
  nocheckcertificate => false,
}
user

String defaults to: selenium

The name/uid of the system role account to execute the server process under and will have ownership of files.

manage_user

Boolean defaults to: true

Whether or not this module should manage the system role account to execute the server process under.

group

String defaults to: selenium

The group/gid of the system role account and group ownership of files.

manage_group

Boolean defaults to: true

Weather or not this module should manage the group of the system role account.

install_root

String defaults to: /opt/selenium

The dirname under which Selenium Server files (including logs) will be created.

java

String defaults to: java

The path of the java interpreter to use.

version

String defaults to: 2.45.0 (the latest release as of 2015-05-23)

The version of Selenium Server to download. Used to form the URL used to fetch the jar file.

url

String defaults to: undef

If defined, url will be used to download the Selenium Server jar file. However, the version parameter just match the version of the downloaded file as this information is needed when starting up the server (this may change to be be automatically parsed from the url in a later release).

download_timeout

String defaults to: 90

Timeout to download of the package.

nocheckcertificate

Boolean defaults to: false

Disables validation of the x509 certificate the Selenium jar file is retrieved from.

See Certificate Errors

selenium::server

# defaults
class { 'selenium::server':
  display => ':0',
  options => '-Dwebdriver.enable.native.events=1',
}
display

String defaults to: :0

The name of the X display to render too. This is set as an environment variable passed to Selenium Server

options

String defaults to: -Dwebdriver.enable.native.events=1

Options passed to Selenium Server at startup.

selenium::hub

Note that by default selenium::server and selenium::hub will try to listen on the same TCP port (4444) and only one of them will be able to function.

# defaults
class { 'selenium::hub':
  options => '-role hub',
}
options

String defaults to: -role hub

Options passed to Selenium Server Hub at startup.

selenium::node

# defaults
class { 'selenium::node':
  display => ':0',
  options => '-Dwebdriver.enable.native.events=1 -role node',
  hub     => 'http://localhost:4444/grid/register',
}
display

String defaults to: :0

The name of the X display to render too. This is set as an environment variable passed to Selenium Server

options

String defaults to: -Dwebdriver.enable.native.events=1 -role node

Options passed to Selenium Server Node at startup.

hub

String defaults to: http://localhost:4444/grid/register

The URL of the Selenium Server Hub to connect to.

Why Another Module?

At the time work on this module was started, there were no other Selenium Server modules published on the Puppet Forge. A number of existing modules were identified on github but none of them fit the author's needs of:

  • Allowing the external setup of things like Xvfb, java, etc. and to allow the composition of site specific profiles/roles.
  • Supporting a mixed environment of Scientific, Centos, and RedHat Linux (basically $::osfamily == 'RedHat'
  • Enough rspec-puppet coverage to prevent regressions

The later is the most important issue. Attempting to add additional $::operatingsystem/$::osfamily support to a puppet module without rspec-puppet tests is a process fraught with peril.

The modules that were identified were:

Limitations

Tested Platforms

  • el6.x
  • el7.x
  • Debian 7
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Ubuntu 14.04

Puppet Version Compatibility

Versions Puppet 2.7 Puppet 3.x Puppet 4.x
0.x yes yes no
1.x no yes yes

Certificate Errors

A number of users have reported "certificate validation errors" when this module downloads the Selenium jar file. The most likely explanation is that the CA certificates on that node are out of date. It may also be an indication of a MITM attack on the TLS connection. Certificate validation errors do not occur on the nodesets used for acceptance tests. The nocheckcertificate param may be set to true to bypass this error but be sure the security implications of this setting are well understood before enabling it.

Versioning

This module is versioned according to the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 specification.

Support

Please log tickets and issues at github

Contributing

  1. Fork it on github
  2. Make a local clone of your fork
  3. Create a topic branch. Eg, feature/mousetrap
  4. Make/commit changes
    • Commit messages should be in imperative tense
    • Check that linter warnings or errors are not introduced - bundle exec rake lint
    • Check that Rspec-puppet unit tests are not broken and coverage is added for new features - bundle exec rake spec
    • Documentation of API/features is updated as appropriate in the README
    • If present, beaker acceptance tests should be run and potentially updated - bundle exec rake beaker
  5. When the feature is complete, rebase / squash the branch history as necessary to remove "fix typo", "oops", "whitespace" and other trivial commits
  6. Push the topic branch to github
  7. Open a Pull Request (PR) from the topic branch onto parent repo's master branch

See Also