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Running CI Tests on Travis CI, Circle CI, Jenkins and other headless systems

You can test your application using Electron with the ember electron:test command. However, because Chromium requires a display to work, you will need to create a fake display during your test in a headless environment like Travis CI or Circle CI. This addon automatically configures .travis.yml, but if you'd like to configure it manually, ensure that you take the following steps:

  • Install xvfb. It's a virtual framebuffer, implementing the X11 display server protocol - it performs all graphical operations in memory without showing any screen output, which is exactly what we need. A Jenkins addon is available.
  • Create a virtual xvfb screen and export an environment variable called DISPLAY that points to it. Electron will automatically pick it up.
  • Install a recent C++ compiler (e.g. gcc). This is to enable the CI server to build native modules for Node.js.
  • Finally, ensure that npm test actually calls ember electron:test. You can configure what command npm test executes by changing it in your package.json.

On Travis, the configuration should look like this:

env:
  - CXX=g++-4.8

addons:
  apt:
    sources:
      - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
    packages:
      - xvfb
      - g++-4.8

before_install:
  - "npm config set spin false"

install:
  - npm install
  - export DISPLAY=':99.0'
  - Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 > /dev/null 2>&1 &