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Appium with Mocha

Your guide to running tests using MochaJS on BrowserStack’s Appium Grid of 3000+ real devices.

Run tests on 3000+ real devices and desktop browsers

Prerequisites

  • You need to have BrowserStack Username and Access key, which you can find in your account profile. If you have not created an account yet, you can sign up for a Free Trial
  • Node v16 installed on your machine.

Run a sample build

Run a sample MochaJS test build using the following steps:

Get our sample project

Get our sample project using one of the following options.

Option 1: Download the project

Download ZIP

Option 2: Clone the sample repository

Clone our sample repository and navigate to the root folder.

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git clone -b sdk https://github.com/browserstack/mocha-appium-app-browserstack
cd mocha-appium-app-browserstack

Configure the config file

Configure a few parameters in the browserstack.yml config file to run the sample build.

Set access credentials

Use the userName and accessKey variables to set your BrowserStack access credentials in the browserstack.yml file to authenticate your tests.

Configure browser or device combinations

Use one of our sample apps to run your first Appium test on BrowserStack App Automate. Choose from the options below:

Platform

Select an OS to choose the devices from below
Parallel thread #1
Parallel thread #2
Parallel thread #3

Copy and replace the browserstack.yml config file

Replace the contents of browserstack.yml situated in the root directory of this project with the given config.

browserstack.yml
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userName: YOUR_USERNAME
accessKey: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
app: bs://sample.app
platforms:
  - platformName: android
    deviceName: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
    platformVersion: 12.0
  - platformName: android
    deviceName: Google Pixel 7 Pro
    platformVersion: 13.0
  - platformName: android
    deviceName: OnePlus 9
    platformVersion: 11.0
parallelsPerPlatform: 1
browserstackLocal: true
buildName: browserstack-build-1
projectName: BrowserStack Sample

Execute the build on BrowserStack

Based on the devices and app selected, cd to the right project, install dependencies, and run a sample test build on BrowserStack

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cd android
npm install
npm run sample-test
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cd ios
npm install
npm run sample-test

After you have successfully run your first test on BrowserStack, try integrating your test suite with BrowserStack

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