Remote Driver

This feature starts one or more drivers on a remote host and allows access to them from tests that run locally. The remote drivers can be manipulated as if they were local - user can call the driver methods as usual in testcases, only that the methods are actually executed on remote host.

The implementation of remote driver is based on RPyC library and has some analogies with RemotePool (but not to be confused, they are two different features). First the remote host will be set up for drivers - create runpath, make available of workspace and testplan lib, push user files etc. Then a classic-mode RPyC server will be started on remote host. The server is abstracted into RemoteService class. Once the remote service is started, we can instantiate RemoteDriver that run remotely via the remote service.

Please note for now this feature is only tested for Linux(local) to Linux(remote) use case, we plan to support Windows(local) to Linux(remote) in future.

A basic example of remote driver can be found here.