Is it possible run Selenium test without active desktop and Jenkins slave?

Question

I have a Windows Server 2012 server , with Jenkins and Selenium tests project on this server.

I want to run my tests on the server via Jenkins rebuild event . Is it possible run Selenium tests in browsers (Firefox, Chrome and IE) directly on this server, without separate slave machine ?

Answer 1

Is it possible run Selenium tests in browsers (Firefox, Chrome and IE) directly on this server, without separate slave machine?

Of course.

You have two options:

1. You can setup a Grid, with only your computer as the node (connecting to itself)

2. Since it's Windows, it does have a desktop and you will be able to run tests just by setting webdriver.chrome|ie.driver and as easy as instantiating Chrome|IEDriver()