Running Selenium Server remotely is integral part of Arquillian Drone workflow for authoring Selenium/WebDriver/Graphene based tests (both are part of WFK), leveraging Drone Reusable Browser Session feature.

The idea is having a Selenium Server as a server adapter in Servers view (similarly to Livereload server adapter).

Available actions:

• start/stop/restart
• kill all running browsers
  • there is well-defined (RESTful) API for controlling the Selenium Server
• eventually selecting a browser to run tests against (e.g. PhantomJS in (now it is leveraged via arquillian.xml configuration)

Configuration options:

• select selenium-server-standalone.jar to run
  • upgrades of Selenium are necessary because of browser-compatibility reasons
  • there could be even an option for downloading newer versions automatically

Advanced features:

• debugging support for PhantomJS browser driver (need to pass remote debugging arguments)