browserstack-automate

BrowserStack-Integration

Patches for Selenium scripts and test suites to run on BrowserStack when RUN_ON_BSTACK=true is set in environment. Currently supports Nightwatch.js.

NodeJS

Setup

• Clone the repo

• Install dependencies npm install

• Export the environment variables for the Username and Access Key of your BrowserStack account

  export BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME=<browserstack-username>
  export BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY=<browserstack-access-key>
  

Running the test

Node script

• To run locally, run npm link && cd examples/simple_sample/ && npm install && npm link browserstack-automate
• To run on BrowserStack, run RUN_ON_BSTACK=true node sample.js

Nightwatch test

• To run locally, run npm link && cd examples/nightwatch/ && npm install && npm link browserstack-automate
• To run on BrowserStack, run RUN_ON_BSTACK=true ./node_modules/.bin/nightwatch -c conf.js

Configuring Tests

The following environment variables are supported,

RUN_ON_BSTACK - Boolean. To run your tests on BrowserStack
BSTACK_LOCAL - Boolean. Whether to start/stop BrowserStackLocal for your tests

BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME - your BrowserStack username
BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY - your BrowserStack accesskey

To run tests

npm test

To integrate to your nightwatch framework

• Add the following to conf.js file.

require('browserstack-automate').Nightwatch();