Test on Internal Networks

BrowserStack enables you to run your Protractor automated tests on your internal development environments, on localhost, and from behind a corporate firewall. This feature is called “Local Testing”.

Local Testing establishes a secure connection between your machine and the BrowserStack cloud. Once you set up Local Testing, all URLs work out of the box, including HTTPS URLs and those behind a proxy or firewall.

Note: Code samples in this guide can be found in the protractor-browserstack sample repo on GitHub

Configuring your Protractor tests for Local Testing takes just three steps:

Step 1: Install the BrowserStack Local Testing bindings:

npm install browserstack-local

Step 2: Next, you need to update your Protractor config file, protractor-browserstack/conf/local.conf.js (in sample repo), and set the browserstack.local capability to true:

var browserstack = require('browserstack-local');

exports.config = {
  'specs': [ '../specs/local.js' ],  // Example spec file in sample repository
  'browserstackUser': 'YOUR_USERNAME',
  'browserstackKey': 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY',

  'capabilities': {
    'build': 'protractor-browserstack',
    'name': 'local_test',
    'browserName': 'chrome',
    'browserstack.local': 'true',
    'browserstack.debug': 'true'
  },

  // Code to start browserstack local before start of test
  beforeLaunch: function(){
    console.log("Connecting local");
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
      exports.bs_local = new browserstack.Local();
      exports.bs_local.start({'key': exports.config['browserstackKey'] }, function(error) {
        if (error) return reject(error);
        console.log('Connected. Now testing...');

        resolve();
      });
    });
  },

  // Code to stop browserstack local after end of test
  afterLaunch: function(){
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
      exports.bs_local.stop(resolve);
    });
  }
};

You can use the following sample test case, which is in our GitHub repo. This test case navigates to the local server which you can use to verify if your Local test connection has been setup correctly:

describe('BrowserStack Local Testing', function() {
  it('can check tunnel working', function() {
    browser.driver.get('http://bs-local.com:45691/check').then(function() {
      expect(browser.driver.getPageSource()).toMatch(/Up and running/i);
    });
  });
});

Step 3: You can now run your Protractor test using BrowserStack Local with the following command:

./node_modules/.bin/protractor conf/local.conf.js

Next steps

Once you have successfully run your first test on BrowserStack, you might want to explore the following:

Run multiple tests in parallel

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