Run tests on internal networks and use tunnel connection for other advanced use-cases
TestCafe operates in a way that irrespective of the fact that you are testing a locally hosted website or a publicly available one, all traffic goes through your local machine which runs the TestCafe instance. Hence, BrowserStackLocal setup is mandatory as we have already seen in the section for setting up BrowserStack Local connection section.
You do not need to make any separate arrangements to run any locally hosted website. You can simply specify the localhost URL and your test should work fine. The next section addresses the concerns if you are behind a proxy.
If you are behind a proxy and want to run your tests on BrowserStack, you have to ensure that the BrowserStackLocal tunnel connection is established between your machine and the BrowserStack cloud. The following sections will help you achieve that.
User managed tunnel connectionYou should have downloaded the appropriate BrowserStackLocal binary. If not, you can download from one of the links below:
You now have to start the binary with the proxy arguments as shown below:
./BrowserStackLocal --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --proxy-host HOST --proxy-port PORT --local-identifier TestCafe --daemon start --parallel-runs <number-of-parallels>
HOST and PORT should be replaced with the proxy hostname and respective port.
If your proxy requires basic authentication, use the invocation as shown below:
./BrowserStackLocal --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --proxy-host HOST --proxy-port PORT --proxy-user USERNAME --proxy-pass PASSWORD --local-identifier TestCafe --daemon start --parallel-runs <number-of-parallels>
You can also set the proxy details using a PAC file as shown below:
./BrowserStackLocal --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --pac-file PAC FILE PATH --local-identifier TestCafe --daemon start --parallel-runs <number-of-parallels>
See the complete list of supported local arguments which you can use in the local binary invocation
TestCafe managed tunnel connection Warning:BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_IDENTIFIER variable with the identifier for your tunnel so that TestCafe does not create another tunnel connection.If you let TestCafe manage the BrowserStack tunnel connection then you have to set values for these environment variables if you are behind a proxy:
Environment Variable DescriptionBROWSERSTACK_PROXY A string that specifies a proxy for the BrowserStack local binary. It should have the following structure: user:pass@proxyHostName:port BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_PROXY A string that specifies a proxy for the local web server. It should have the following structure: user:pass@proxyHostName:port BROWSERSTACK_FORCE_PROXY If it’s not empty, forces all traffic of BrowserStack local binary to go through the proxy.
Example:
export BROWSERSTACK_PROXY="user:p@ssw0rd@proxy.com:8080"
export BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_PROXY="admin:12345678@192.168.0.2:8080"
export BROWSERSTACK_FORCE_PROXY="1"
export BROWSERSTACK_FORCE_LOCAL="1"
testcafe browserstack:chrome test.js
Setting these additional environment variables will let you avail more features of BrowserStackLocal binary as shown below:
Environment Variable DescriptionBROWSERSTACK_BINARY_PATH The filepath where you have downloaded the binary. If this is not set, TestCafe will download the binary every time BROWSERSTACK_LOGFILE The full filepath where you want to save the local binary logs BROWSERSTACK_VERBOSE This would set the logging level. 1 for setup logs, 2 for network logs and 3 for all logs BROWSERSTACK_FORCE_LOCAL If it’s not empty, forces all traffic of BrowserStack local binary to go through the local machine BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_IDENTIFIER A string identifier of an open BrowserStack local tunnel. If it’s not empty, a new local tunnel is not created. Instead, the browser provider uses an existing local tunnel with the specified identifier
Example:
export BROWSERSTACK_BINARY_PATH="~/BrowserStack/BrowserStackLocal"
export BROWSERSTACK_LOGFILE="~/BrowserStack/logs.txt"
export BROWSERSTACK_VERBOSE="1"
testcafe browserstack:chrome test.js
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