Headless Browser Testing Clarified

Headless Browser Testing is mostly unnecessary.

Zhimin Zhan

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Sep 20, 2021

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This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.

Headless Browser Testing is a way of running browser tests without the UI (head, a term from Unix). Let’s have a look at a Selenium test execution in headless mode as well as a normal mode for comparison.