README.md

nightwatch-browserstack

Nightwatch Integration with BrowserStack.

Setup

• Clone the repo

• Install dependencies npm install

• You can 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 your tests

• To run tests, run npm run sample-test
• To run local tests, run npm run sample-local-test

Understand how many parallel sessions you need by using our Parallel Test Calculator

Notes

• You can view your test results on the BrowserStack automate dashboard
• To test on a different set of browsers, check out our capabilities generator

Connecting to BrowserStack via a proxy server

You can specify proxy settings in Nightwatch by adding the proxy key in your *.conf.js

  test_settings: {
    default: {
      desiredCapabilities: {
        // Your capabilities
      },
      proxy: {
        "host": "",     // "127.0.0.1"
        "port": "",     // "8081"
        "protocol": ""  // "http"
      }
    }
  }

Additional Resources

• Documentation for writing automate test scripts in Node
• Customizing your tests on BrowserStack
• Browsers & mobile devices for selenium testing on BrowserStack
• Using REST API to access information about your tests via the command-line interface
• Example to update the Browserstack session status based on the test results