Headless Testing [Codeception+Phantomjs]

Installation

• phantomjs can be downloaded from http://phantomjs.org/
• Once downloaded,unzip it and update the path variable under 'Env Variables > user variables' to path of 'phantomjs.exe'. Eg : C:\Download\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows
  

• Check the installation from a command prompt using:

   phantomjs –version  

  
  
  

• Start the ghost driver , it needs to run on the port on which selenium server is running using this command :

 phantomjs --webdriver=4444  

Configurations needed in Codeception

• Change 'browser' parameter inside 'acceptance.suite.yml.template' to specify 'phantomjs'
  

  

Run Tests

• Tests can be run as usual using :

   php codecept.php run <cept structure> --steps  
  

Note: When applications are browse via 'https' , Please include phantomjs commandline option of turning the ignore ssl errors ON. Use below command : 

 phantomjs –ignore-ssl-errors=true –webdriver=4444