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The Problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. If you are looking to run your test on multiple browsers and can’t justify why you should have third party solutions like Browserstack or Sauce Labs, or you want more flexibility with third-party solutions.<\/li>\n
  2. Setting up and running selenium grid on your local machine connected to other computers as nodes can be very hectic to set up, computers connected to the grid can go to sleep or have
    \nnetwork issues, which can fail tests if there is no check for the active node before running test, just to mention a few issues with the\u00a0current solution available. Adding all kinds of checks and writing extra code to manage grid makes the test suite too brittle to work with and diverts test engineers time from what is important, writing tests.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A Solution<\/strong>
    \nThe problem mentioned above is solved by integrating RSpec test framework with Zalenium.<\/p>\n

    What is Zalenium?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

    Zalenium gets its name from the combination of Zalando and Selenium. It is a flexible and scalable container based Selenium Grid with video recording, live preview,
    \nbasic auth & dashboard built on docker-selenium to build a Selenium Grid in seconds, a grid that scales up and down dynamically with this solution based on docker-selenium
    \nto run your tests in Firefox and Chrome.<\/p>\n

    Assumption<\/strong>
    \nThis tutorial assumes that you are somewhat familiar with Docker(Beginner level)<\/p>\n