A Fracking Friday Investigation of how to perform end-to-end testing of Grey Matter Fabric Dashboard via Mocha, Nightwatch, and BrowserStack
Investigate the various Node.js end-to-end testing frameworks supported by BrowserStack, select a framework, and refactor a handful of Selenium tests from Java into JavaScript.
Grey Matter Fabric Dashboard was approved for free access to BrowserStack Automate services as an open source project. Jamie wrote end-to-end test for the dashboard in Selenium, but because they are in Java, they are not maintainable by the UI/UX team. This would work form the basis for a strategy to integrate these tests into our CI/CD pipeline and later roll out to other Decipher open-source UI/UX projects
Developer: Sean McBride Approved By: David Tillery
- Clone the repo
- Install dependencies
npm install - Set your BrowserStack credentials to the environment variables
BROWSERSTACK_USERNAMEandBROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY. If you have an account, you can obtain these credentials form https://www.browserstack.com/accounts/settings
- To run a single test, run
npm run single - To run local tests, run
npm run local - To run parallel tests, run
npm run parallel
Understand how many parallel sessions you need by using our Parallel Test Calculator
- You can view your test results on the BrowserStack automate dashboard
- To test on a different set of browsers, check out our platform configurator
You can specify proxy settings in Nightwatch by adding the proxy key in your *.conf.js
test_settings: {
default: {
desiredCapabilities: {
// Your capabilities
},
proxy: {
"host": "", // "127.0.0.1"
"port": "", // "8081"
"protocol": "" // "http"
}
}
}- Documentation for writing automate test scripts in Node
- Customizing your tests on BrowserStack
- Browsers & mobile devices for selenium testing on BrowserStack
- Using REST API to access information about your tests via the command-line interface
- Example to update the Browserstack session status based on the test results