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- An active account with valid Username/Access Key and
- Sufficient balance of execution hours
Configuring qualitia.properties and browserstack.properties
In order to execute test cases on BrowserStack, you need to configure the qualitia.properties file accordingly.
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Once all the configuration settings are done successfully, you can now execute test cases on BrowserStack.
Executing Offline Package
You can execute the offline package using traditional method of offline execution.
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browserstack.properties | It is a set of default BrowserStack properties file. You can always use this file to define your own set of properties. |
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Command Line Arguments | Qualitia allows providing BrowserStack properties as command line arguments. For example, java -jar qualitiaoffline-xxxx.jar custom_username=<<BrowserStack user name>> platform=MAC recordVideo=false |
Viewing Current Execution on BrowserStack
Once you have triggered the offline execution, you can view the status of your ongoing executions on BrowserStack. BrowserStack considers each Test case as a new project. The status is updated after each project is completed with its status against it. Also, you can filter the projects by their status (Completed, Timeout, or Errors) or you can search it by build name or session name.
You can record your test case execution configuring the browserstack.properties file accordingly. If you set the recordVideo value as true and all the test case executions will be recorded. You can download these videos once the test execution is completed.
Execution Reports
Test execution reports are launched on the machine from where the execution was triggered after the test case execution is completed. You can view the browser type and browser version on the report displayed.
Execution of Tests Running Behind Firewall Applications
Sometimes applications are configured to be accessed within private networks. Such applications deny access when they are being accessed from other than local networks and so from BrowserStack. Executing test cases on BrowserStack for such applications needs special configurations.
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Once the BrowserStackLocal Unix Executable file is executed successfully, you can execute your Offline tests on BrowserStack environment using the same method mentioned above.
Execution using Browser's Capabilities
Selenium allows you setting desired browser specific properties to be used when executing test cases. These properties can be set for offline execution as well. You can provide these browser specific details through browser-capability files. For each supported browser (Firefox, IE, Google Chrome, and Safari) there is a separate property file present in the Config folder of Qualitia's offline package. Following is the list of files;
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Each property file above is a set of all the browser specific properties that Selenium allows you change. If you do not change any property, Selenium uses its default values.
Changing Browser Capabilities
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Selenium uses its own settings for each key that has been commented in the file, except unexpectedAlertBehaviour. Changing properties here overrides the values provided in qualitia.properties / sauce.properties, or selenium's default values. When executing test cases using offline package, you can change some property values providing command line arguments accordingly. But all capability keys do not accept values from command line, hence it is recommended providing values through property files.
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Qualitia gives you provision to set these values for Selenium. Selenium has its own control on what value to use and how to reflect them in Execution Browser. For more information about Selenium Capabilities, refer following links:
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/DesiredCapabilities
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/capabilities
Reports
Execution reports display OS and Browser with their corresponding versions on its summary page along with the execution environment used. For example, if you have chosen execution as Sauce and execution browser as Firefox 42 on Windows 8.1 report is displayed as follows;
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