The Chronicles of Circle CI - Headless Chrome
With my level of patience, I would say running an automated end to end test in circle CI ( v1.0, yes, I am still living in the yesteryears) is quite a nerve wrecking experience. Our requirement was simple - to be able to run end-to-end tests using protractor wrapper over selenium running chrome headless . Out of the box syndrome The first trial run was setting up the end-to-end execution in native circleCI environment. CircleCI v1.0 comes shipped with Ubuntu 14.04 , Google-Chrome v54 , and Java1.8 & 1.7 . The default Java version under CircleCI is set to v1.7 . Versioning Driver We started the trial run by fixing the versions in native CircleCI environment, finalising on protractor v5.2.2 , and upgrading webdriver-manager , selenium , chrome-driver and gecko ( FireFox) drivers. The final fixed versions looked something like this: protractor v5.2.2 selenium v3.8.1 chrome-driver v2.34 Update the drivers using webdriver-manager from node_modules/p