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Carol M
Carol M

Reputation: 83

TestCafe on BrowserStack without LocalTesting?

I am running TestCafe tests and troubleshooting BrowserStack failures related to LocalTesting (https://www.browserstack.com/local-testing). I would like to NOT use LocalTesting in my test runs.

In reading up on TestCafe's BrowserStack plugin and its source code (https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe-browser-provider-browserstack) I am seeing that LocalTesting is used by default (ref. https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe-browser-provider-browserstack/blob/9d45bb621cc29d1a3e78cb94d92a32a1f0dff216/src/index.js#L14O).

When I set my config to BROWSERSTACK_NO_LOCAL="TRUE" I am finding that tests time out at the TestCafe initial proxy URL, e.g., http://{host}:{port}/browser/connect/{session}

Is it possible to run TestCafe tests on BrowserStack without LocalTesting?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 722

Answers (2)

Carol M
Carol M

Reputation: 83

I brought this question to the github project. As explained in issue 3757, the application under test does not need to be deployed to a machine with a public IP address. In order to avoid BrowserStack's Local Testing, TestCafe must be run on a machine with a public IP address.

Upvotes: 0

mlosev
mlosev

Reputation: 5227

Yes, it's possible. To run TestCafe tests on BrowserStack without LocalTesting, you need a machine with a dedicated public IP address. The workflow is the following:  

  • deploy your tested site on the machine using this way: public-ip-address -> root site folder.
  • set BROWSERSTACK_NO_LOCAL="TRUE"
  • set up you test's page urls as public-ip-address/
  • install testcafe-browser-provider-browserstack plugin and run TestCafe with it

Upvotes: 3

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