Selenium capabilities

The following is a list of capabilities selenium offers to specify the browser and the OS.

Selenium capability rules

The following rules are defined to help you specify which browser/OS/device combination to test on, resolving capability conflicts.

• The value ANY, if given to any capability that supports that value, is same as the capability preference not specified.
• The default browser is Chrome when no browser is declared by the user or the selenium API (implicitly).

Supported browser versions for selenium

The following are the supported browser versions for different browsers in Automation Grid. Use the browserVersion capability to run selenium sessions on specific browser versions.

Google Chrome

For Chrome, the following browser versions are supported to run selenium sessions. Set the browser capability to chrome and browserVersion capability with one of the following values to run a test on a particular version of Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox

For Firefox, the following browser versions are supported to run selenium sessions. Set the browser capability to firefox and browserVersion capability with one of the following values to run a test on a particular version of Firefox.

Microsoft Edge

For Edge, the following browser versions are supported to run selenium sessions. Set the browser capability to MicrosoftEdge and browserVersion capability with one of the following values to run a test on a particular version of Edge.

Automate TurboScale allows you to run Playwright tests across multiple operating systems and browser versions. The following table lists the supported combinations and their corresponding Playwright versions for cross-browser Playwright tests. Reviewing these configurations helps you accurately define your browserstack.yml file and ensures your tests execute as expected.

Specify browser and OS

platforms:
  - os: linux
    browserName: chrome
    browserVersion: latest

const caps={
  'os': 'linux',
  'browser': 'chrome',
  'browser_version': 'latest',
  
};

Playwright compatible devices and browsers

The following table lists the supported platforms and corresponding Playwright versions and the compatible device and browser versions:

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If you have a use case where you need to use a Playwright version other than the ones we support, contact us.

Supported Cypress and browsers versions for Cypress tests

When running any Cypress test, you have to specify the browser and version that you want to use for the test. This document lists all of the supported browsers and Cypress versions for cross-browser Cypress tests. It also includes the values to specify in the capability to accomplish that.

Specify browser and OS

The sample structure of the browsers object is as follows:

{
  ...  
  "browsers": [
    {
      "os": "linux",
      "browser": "chrome",
      "versions": ["latest", "latest-1", "latest-2"]
    }
  ]
  ...
}

Cypress compatible devices and browsers

The following table lists the supported Cypress versions and the compatible browser versions: