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[MykolaGolubyev]

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[aplatypus]

• Hope this is the right place to do this...

• Can I use either

  • Edge
  • Firefox

  ... with WebTau?

• If so which environment variables do I need to set? I've seen:

• WEBTAU_CHROME_DRIVER_PATH

• Which file it that looking for? The chrome executable or something different?

I should addd that I'm running this from a Gradle project so I really need to know what's required -- It can be almost like running in a sandbox.

[MykolaGolubyev]

Hi @aplatypus,

To run your tests using Firefox (edge is not supported at the moment) you need to pass browserId to the runner. In case of groovy CLI runner --browserId=firefox, in case of JVM Junit like runners -DbrowserId=firefox or you can set env var WEBTAU_BROWSER_ID=firefox.
Alternatively you can use webtau.properties file in resources and put browserId=firefox inside, but then it may become harder to modify if you need to switch back and forth.

Webtau tries to download driver automatically. If you are behind a firewall, you can set location of the driver using firefoxDriverPath config value (system prop, or env var, following the same rule of name change)

As a side note, Gradle specific plugin to execute Groovy files is in a backlog, but I have little expertise implementing Gradle plugins as part of Maven project (webtau is maven based)

[aplatypus]

• I am using JUnit5 to do tests
• Our automated tests are run with JUnit by Gradle as part of the Github commit checks
• In a way you have a lot of infrastructure for 'free' via JUnit 5 and maven or gradle
  • may be you can go that way and put time into the core aspects (???)
  • JUnit 5 seems to do well on Groovy. Before I was using Spock with JUnit4 (spock is in Groovy)
• I would definitely recommend Gradle over Maven. There's always that learning curve though ;-)
• Would the CHROME driver work with Chromumium?

[MykolaGolubyev]

Could you please clarify support of JUnit5? Webtau API is runner agnostic. It does also have dedicated JUnit5 support in terms of producing reports based on Junit5 test structure.

Problem with Gradle in my case is webtau project itself is maven and I wasn't able to find a good way to build/register gradle plugins from maven project. I don't have plans to switch webtau to gradle itself. But may need to google more up-to-date info on how to release gradle plugins from maven.

Would the CHROME driver work with Chromumium?
should be able to support