Executing on a selected node in selenium grid

Question

I have one scenario i.e.. I have one web view to take all actions(click,send-keys,opening new window) and locator types(ex: xpath,id,name and cssClassName) with these values I am going to create a selenium script and executing using selenium grid (All these things will be happens with the help of servlets).

My Issue : Lets take the sample scenario, I have three machines A,B and C . In the machine A is configured as a server hub and Machine B and C are configured as a Node's . So when I am try to create and execute the selenium script through WebUI(which is explained above) ,the browsers was opening in either machine B or C but I want to open a browser in which machine webUI was used to create a selenium script.Is it possible ???.If yes please let me know

Answer 1

Each node has three configuration items: browserName, version and platform. The version is a "free" format. If you give each of your nodes a made up version name (999,998 and 997) then you can use the Grid capability to force a test the run on the version name of choice.

Start the nodes with

 -browser version=999

In your test ask for a capability:

capability.setVersion("999");  

If only one node has this version, the test should start the run on that node.

For more info about Grid configration look at: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/Grid2

Answer 2

        // settings.setBrowserName("firefox");
        settings.setPlatform(Platform.WIN8_1);
        // Node 1 will be Launched with FF in  Windows 8 

        settings.setBrowserName("chrome");
        settings.setPlatform(Platform.LINUX);

        // Node 2 will be launched with Chrome in Linux

        driver = new RemoteWebDriver(hubURL, settings);



        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        // Maximize the Browser