How to execute selenium test in Github Actions

 Create a simple Maven TestNG Selenium project as below.

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");

        ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();

        chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");

        driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

        driver.get("https://www.xxxx.com/playlists");

        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//*[@class='yt-simple-endpoint style-scope ytd-playlist-thumbnail'])[4]"));

        element.click();

        driver.quit();

Make sure to give a correct web driver path when you are testing the code in our local environment.

We will change it when we deploy it to GitHub actions.

Now push your code GitHub and enable actions from the project settings section.

Create a new yml file which will automatically generate when you select maven build project.

There will be a new yml file available as for the below screen shot.

In adition to default content I have to add

• Chrome driver
• Chrome web browser

This is the code to download above from the yml file.

 # Download Chrome version 114.0.5735.90

    - name: Download ChromeDriver

      run: | 

          

          # Download Chrome version 114.0.5735.90

          wget -q "https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_114.0.5735.90-1_amd64.deb" -O chrome.deb

          # Install Chrome

          sudo dpkg -i chrome.deb

          # Install dependencies

          sudo apt-get install -f

          # Clean up

          rm chrome.deb

          LATEST_CHROMEDRIVER_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE")

          wget "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/${LATEST_CHROMEDRIVER_VERSION}/chromedriver_linux64.zip" -P ~/

          unzip ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/ && rm ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip

          sudo mv -f ~/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

          sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

Then add below code to execute the test.

    - name: Build with Maven

      run: mvn clean install -B

You can find the full code with copying screen shots  at https://github.com/chathurahjm/gitActionWIthScreenShots