A command line interface to run browser tests over BrowserStack.

Install

Go to the browserstack-runner directory.
Install browserstack-runner

npm -g install

or

For development,

npm link

Configuration

To run browser tests on BrowserStack infrastructure, you need to create a browserstack.json file in project's root directory (the directory from which tests are run), by running this command:

browserstack-runner init [preset]

If nothing is provided as preset default is used.

Currently only one preset is present: default

Parameters

• username: BrowserStack username (Alternatively: use BROWSERSTACK_UESRNAME environment variable)

• key: BrowserStack key (Alternatively: use BROWSERSTACK_KEY environment variable)

• test_path: Path to the which will execute the tests when opened in a browser.

• browsers: A list of browsers on which tests are to be run.

A sample configuration file:

{
  "username": "<username>",
  "key": "<key>",
  "test_path": "relative/path/to/test/page",
  "browsers":   [{
    "browser": "firefox",
    "browser_version": "15.0",
    "device": null,
    "os": "OS X",
    "os_version": "Snow Leopard"
  },
  {
    "browser": "firefox",
    "browser_version": "16.0",
    "device": null,
    "os": "Windows",
    "os_version": "7"
  },
  {
    "browser": "firefox",
    "browser_version": "17.0",
    "device": null,
    "os": "Windows",
    "os_version": "8"
  },
  {
    "browser": "ie",
    "browser_version": "8.0",
    "device": null,
    "os": "Windows",
    "os_version": "7"
  },
  {
    "browser": "ie",
    "browser_version": "9.0",
    "device": null,
    "os": "Windows",
    "os_version": "7"
  },
  {
    "browser": "ie",
    "browser_version": "10.0",
    "device": null,
    "os": "Windows",
    "os_version": "8"
  }]
}

Secure Information

To prevent checking in the BrowserStack username and key in your source control, the corresponding environment variables can be used.

The environment variables then can be safely provided in the build configuration. For example, with travis-ci you can follow:

http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/build-configuration/#Secure-environment-variables

Running tests

Run browserstack-runner to run the tests on all the browsers mentioned in the configuration.

You can include this in your test script to automatically run cross browser tests on every build.