How To Run Your Tests Headless with Chrome

Intro

This is a guest post from Chris Kenst.

If you want to run your tests headlessly on a Continuous Integration (CI) server you'll quickly realize that you can't with an out-of-the-box setup since there is no display output for the browser to launch in. You could use a third party library like Xvfb or PhantomJS but those can be hard to install and aren't guaranteed to be supported in the long run (like PhantomJS).

A Solution

Enter Headless Chrome (link)

Starting with Chrome 59 (Chrome 60 for Windows) we can pass Chrome a few configuration options to enable headless mode.