How to run selenium test on edge browser on Jenkins in headless mode

yeshwanth kv 0

We are running Selenium tests on Jenkins and When trying to run tests on Edge browser on Jenkins Browser does not launch. I understand it is due to headless mode. How do we configure edge to run it in headless mode. Does edge support headless mode on Jenkins.

ShiJieLi-MSFT 10,771 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-03-13T06:15:57.7+00:00

Hi @yeshwanth kv,

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ShiJieLi-MSFT 10,771 Microsoft Vendor

Hi @yeshwanth kv,

By default, Jenkins uses headless mode, so Edge supports headless mode on Jenkins. You don't need to configure anything. That's what you have already got in your test.

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yeshwanth kv 0

Hi, we tried and we are getting below error. This issue is obsereved when Jenkins node is a windows service.

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: Microsoft Edge failed to start: crashed.
19:43:17   (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
19:43:17   (The process started from msedge location C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe is no longer running, so msedgedriver is assuming that msedge has crashed.) 
19:43:17 Host info: host: 'EC2AMAZ-5E10TBQ', ip: '10.172.98.221'
19:43:17 Build info: version: '4.19.1', revision: 'abe0ee07dc'
19:43:17 System info: os.name: 'Windows Server 2019', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17'
19:43:17 Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver
19:43:17 Command: [null, newSession {capabilities=[Capabilities {browserName: MicrosoftEdge, ms:edgeOptions: {args: [--start-maximized], binary: C:\Program Files (x86)\Micr..., excludeSwitches: [disable-popup-blocking], extensions: []}}]}]
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:114)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:75)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:61)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:162)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.invokeExecute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:216)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:174)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:518)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:232)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:161)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.chromium.ChromiumDriver.<init>(ChromiumDriver.java:114)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.<init>(EdgeDriver.java:61)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.<init>(EdgeDriver.java:57)
19:43:17 	at org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.<init>(EdgeDriver.java:49)
19:43:17 	at com.amp.qa.utils.DriverUtil.initializeDriver(DriverUtil.java:60)
19:43:17 	at com.amp.qa.utils.DriverUtil.getDriver(DriverUtil.java:28)

ShiJieLi-MSFT 10,771 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-04-09T08:11:09.77+00:00

Hi @yeshwanth kv,

Usually, this is caused by Edge processes not being killed first. Could you try killing all msedge.exe processes before running the automation?
yeshwanth kv 0 Reputation points

2024-04-12T11:39:20.7266667+00:00

We have killed msedge.exe and tried still getting the same error.

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