OS appears as Unknown on Selenium Grid Hub console when Node Platform is configured as LINUX through selenium grid

Question

I am using windows7 and trying to run my test cases on LINUX by setting the platform. I am specifying the browser properties in node.json as below:

{
    "browserName": "chrome",
    "maxInstances": 2,
    "platform":"LINUX",
    "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
}

But, in the browser when I open the Hub url console, the result is like this. to see result click here

Here, my question is: Should we have LINUX OS to the node to say run with LINUX platform? Can anyone help me on this issue??

Answer 1

As per the WebDriver W3C Editor's Draft in chapter 7. Capabilities , section 7.2 Processing Capabilities there is no capability as platform . The supported capability is platformName and the supported values are:

• linux
• mac
• windows

Note : This list is not exhaustive. When returning capabilities from New Session, it is valid to return a more specific platformName, allowing users to correctly identify the Operating System the WebDriver implementation is running on.

Solution

Change the capabilities in node.json as:

{
    "browserName": "chrome",
    "maxInstances": 2,
    "platformName":"linux",
    "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
}