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Setup CI

Setup CI

- [Instructor] Selenium Grid is a proxy server that routes commands to remote browser instances. It spreads the load of testing across several machines, and those machines can run different browsers and browser versions, and different platforms as well. With Selenium Grid, one server acts as the hub, and routes JSON formatted test commands to one or more registered grid nodes to access browser instances. A hub is a central point from where tests are executed. A hub also provides a list of servers that provide access to browser instances or web server nodes. Nodes are where tests are run. Each node is a machine that has their own individual Selenium instances. Selenium Grid is great, because it allows running tests in parallel on multiple machines and the ability to manage different browser versions and browser configurations centrally. To use Selenium Grid, you first need to download the Selenium stand alone server…

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