Test run in headless chrome is not working

[gafi9]

What are you trying to achieve?

I've wanted to run a test in headless Chrome, but it seems like the capabilities part of the web driver module is not recognized. Below you can see the setup I have.
I've tried the recommendation in the official documentation https://codeception.com/docs/modules/WebDriver#Headless-Chrome-Browser and I've tried the tips in #4699 and in SeleniumHQ/selenium#886 (comment) as well, but neither worked.

Steps:

1. I've started the chrome driver with selenium-standalone start --singleDriverStart=chrome

12:53:40.739 INFO [LoggingOptions.configureLogEncoding] - Using the system default encoding
12:53:40.747 INFO [OpenTelemetryTracer.createTracer] - Using OpenTelemetry for tracing
12:53:42.030 INFO [NodeOptions.getSessionFactories] - Detected 8 available processors
12:53:42.055 INFO [NodeOptions.discoverDrivers] - Driver(s) already present on the host: 1
12:53:42.082 INFO [NodeOptions.report] - Adding Chrome for {"browserName": "chrome","goog:chromeOptions": {"args": [ "--remote-allow-origins=*" ] } } 8 times (Host)
12:53:42.172 INFO [Node.<init>] - Binding additional locator mechanisms: relative
12:53:42.561 INFO [Standalone.execute] - Started Selenium Standalone 4.9.0 (revision d7057100a6): http://url

2. I ran the test with php vendor/bin/codecept run --debug -> Browser started and the test runs in headed mode

Details

• Codeception version: 5.0.11
• PHP Version: 8.2.11
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Installation type: Composer
• List of installed packages (composer show)

antavo/escher-php                  1.2.1    Library for HTTP request signing (PHP implementation)
behat/gherkin                      v4.9.0   Gherkin DSL parser for PHP
codeception/codeception            5.0.11   BDD-style testing framework
codeception/lib-asserts            2.1.0    Assertion methods used by Codeception core and Asserts module
codeception/lib-innerbrowser       4.0.0    Parent library for all Codeception framework modules and PhpBrowser
codeception/lib-web                1.0.2    Library containing files used by module-webdriver and lib-innerbrowser or module-phpbrowser
codeception/lib-xml                1.0.1    Files used by module-rest and module-soap
codeception/module-asserts         3.0.0    Codeception module containing various assertions
codeception/module-phpbrowser      3.0.0    Codeception module for testing web application over HTTP
codeception/module-rest            3.3.2    REST module for Codeception
codeception/module-webdriver       4.0.0    WebDriver module for Codeception
codeception/stub                   4.1.2    Flexible Stub wrapper for PHPUnit's Mock Builder
graham-campbell/result-type        v1.1.1   An Implementation Of The Result Type
guzzlehttp/guzzle                  7.8.0    Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library
guzzlehttp/promises                2.0.1    Guzzle promises library
guzzlehttp/psr7                    2.6.1    PSR-7 message implementation that also provides common utility methods
justinrainbow/json-schema          v5.2.13  A library to validate a json schema.
masterminds/html5                  2.8.1    An HTML5 parser and serializer.
myclabs/deep-copy                  1.11.1   Create deep copies (clones) of your objects
nikic/php-parser                   v4.17.1  A PHP parser written in PHP
phar-io/manifest                   2.0.3    Component for reading phar.io manifest information from a PHP Archive (PHAR)
phar-io/version                    3.2.1    Library for handling version information and constraints
php-webdriver/webdriver            1.15.0   A PHP client for Selenium WebDriver. Previously facebook/webdriver.
phpoption/phpoption                1.9.1    Option Type for PHP
phpunit/php-code-coverage          10.1.7   Library that provides collection, processing, and rendering functionality for PHP code coverage information.
phpunit/php-file-iterator          4.1.0    FilterIterator implementation that filters files based on a list of suffixes.
phpunit/php-invoker                4.0.0    Invoke callables with a timeout
phpunit/php-text-template          3.0.1    Simple template engine.
phpunit/php-timer                  6.0.0    Utility class for timing
phpunit/phpunit                    10.4.1   The PHP Unit Testing framework.
psr/container                      2.0.2    Common Container Interface (PHP FIG PSR-11)
psr/event-dispatcher               1.0.0    Standard interfaces for event handling.
psr/http-client                    1.0.3    Common interface for HTTP clients
psr/http-factory                   1.0.2    Common interfaces for PSR-7 HTTP message factories
psr/http-message                   2.0      Common interface for HTTP messages
psy/psysh                          v0.11.21 An interactive shell for modern PHP.
ralouphie/getallheaders            3.0.3    A polyfill for getallheaders.
sebastian/cli-parser               2.0.0    Library for parsing CLI options
sebastian/code-unit                2.0.0    Collection of value objects that represent the PHP code units
sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup 3.0.0    Looks up which function or method a line of code belongs to
sebastian/comparator               5.0.1    Provides the functionality to compare PHP values for equality
sebastian/complexity               3.1.0    Library for calculating the complexity of PHP code units
sebastian/diff                     5.0.3    Diff implementation
sebastian/environment              6.0.1    Provides functionality to handle HHVM/PHP environments
sebastian/exporter                 5.1.1    Provides the functionality to export PHP variables for visualization
sebastian/global-state             6.0.1    Snapshotting of global state
sebastian/lines-of-code            2.0.1    Library for counting the lines of code in PHP source code
sebastian/object-enumerator        5.0.0    Traverses array structures and object graphs to enumerate all referenced objects
sebastian/object-reflector         3.0.0    Allows reflection of object attributes, including inherited and non-public ones
sebastian/recursion-context        5.0.0    Provides functionality to recursively process PHP variables
sebastian/type                     4.0.0    Collection of value objects that represent the types of the PHP type system
sebastian/version                  4.0.1    Library that helps with managing the version number of Git-hosted PHP projects
softcreatr/jsonpath                0.8.3    JSONPath implementation for parsing, searching and flattening arrays
symfony/browser-kit                v6.3.2   Simulates the behavior of a web browser, allowing you to make requests, click on links and submit forms programmatically
symfony/console                    v6.3.4   Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces
symfony/css-selector               v6.3.2   Converts CSS selectors to XPath expressions
symfony/deprecation-contracts      v3.3.0   A generic function and convention to trigger deprecation notices
symfony/dom-crawler                v6.3.4   Eases DOM navigation for HTML and XML documents
symfony/event-dispatcher           v6.3.2   Provides tools that allow your application components to communicate with each other by dispatching events and listening to them
symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts v3.3.0   Generic abstractions related to dispatching event
symfony/finder                     v6.3.5   Finds files and directories via an intuitive fluent interface
symfony/polyfill-ctype             v1.28.0  Symfony polyfill for ctype functions
symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme     v1.28.0  Symfony polyfill for intl's grapheme_* functions
symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer   v1.28.0  Symfony polyfill for intl's Normalizer class and related functions
symfony/polyfill-mbstring          v1.28.0  Symfony polyfill for the Mbstring extension
symfony/polyfill-php80             v1.28.0  Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 8.0+ features to lower PHP versions
symfony/process                    v6.3.4   Executes commands in sub-processes
symfony/service-contracts          v3.3.0   Generic abstractions related to writing services
symfony/string                     v6.3.5   Provides an object-oriented API to strings and deals with bytes, UTF-8 code points and grapheme clusters in a unified way
symfony/var-dumper                 v6.3.5   Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable
symfony/yaml                       v6.3.3   Loads and dumps YAML files
theseer/tokenizer                  1.2.1    A small library for converting tokenized PHP source code into XML and potentially other formats
vlucas/phpdotenv                   v5.5.0   Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.

• Suite configuration:

actor: AcceptanceTester
modules:
    enabled:
        - WebDriver:
            url: 'https://loyalty.testauto.antavo.com'
            browser: chrome
            capabilities:
                chromeOptions:
                    args: ["--headless", "--disable-gpu"]
        - REST:
              depends: PhpBrowser
              part: Json
        - Asserts
        - Tests\Support\Helper\DataStore

# add Codeception\Step\Retry trait to AcceptanceTester to enable retries
step_decorators:
    - Codeception\Step\ConditionalAssertion
    - Codeception\Step\TryTo
    - Codeception\Step\Retry
    - Codeception\Step\AsJson

gherkin:
    contexts:
        path: tests/Support/Step
        namespace_prefix: Tests\Support\Step
        default:
            - Tests\Support\AcceptanceTester

[den1a]

Hi. I have a similar problem. I couldn't solve it. Try this option as a temporary solution

https://github.com/webdriverio/selenium-standalone/blob/HEAD/docs/xvfb.md

Good luck

[fridtjof]

The chromeOptions key was renamed to goog:chromeOptions in Selenium 3.8, see e.g. here #5349