Ever wanted to quickly see if you can reproduce an issue on a specific combination of browser version and operating system? In this post, we will show you how to use BrowserStack’s Live offering to test your web and mobile applications across a wide range of browser and operating systems. Why this post? We work with startups. Many times, our […]
BrowserStack Live: Running manual tests on the cloud
pytest: Cross browser, cross platform Selenium tests
We showed you how to run tests on BrowserStack using pytest in our previous post – pytest and Browserstack. We had an example test and ran it across one browser from the command line argument. What if we need to run it across different browser versions, platforms and platform versions? Why this post? pytest responds really well when we run […]
pytest and Browserstack
BrowserStack is a cloud-based testing tool that enables developers/testers to test their application across various browsers on different operating systems and mobile devices. We use Browserstack a lot at Qxf2 and recommend it to all our clients. We recently started using pytest to run our tests. We were surprised how quick and easy it was to configure pytest to run […]
Pytest-xdist: Run tests in parallel
Problem: How do you run tests in parallel with pytest? We have begun using pytest as our test runner at most of our clients. At one client, our tests are triggered by CircleCI and run on BrowserStack. Our GUI automation suite grew in size and was starting to take a long time to run against a vast combination of OSes […]
Obtaining BrowserStack screenshots and video links
At Qxf2 we use BrowserStack to run our automated checks against different browsers. BrowserStack is a cloud-based, cross-browser, testing tool that takes away the pain of maintaining a physical lab and saves us a lot of time. Why this post? BrowserStack is a great tool to execute your automated tests. However BrowserStack is not a good tool to report the […]
Connecting to BrowserStack from CircleCI containers
Problem: How do I connect to BrowserStack from CircleCI’s build containers? Why this post? A recent Qxf2 client was using CircleCI for their continuous integration and deployment needs. Partnering with our client, we had identified that it would be useful to run a minimal set of automated GUI tests as part of their continuous integration and deployment process. The GUI […]
BrowserStack configuration for Selenium automation
BrowserStack has a number of useful configuration options. In this post, we will show you how to make your automated test runs to use specific configuration parameters of BrowserStack. We walk you through the steps needed to modify your existing automated test runs to use specific configuration parameters of BrowserStack. We assume you have a BrowserStack account. If not, please […]
Selenium & BrowserStack: Browsers, devices as parameters
In a previous post, we showed you how to get started with running your Selenium automation on BrowserStack. In this post Team Qxf2 will show you how to modify your existing automation scripts to run on different platforms, browsers and devices. Since a lot of our readers seem to like mobile automation, we have chosen to run these tests on […]
Get started with BrowserStack: Part I
Problem: Maintaining infrastructure for Selenium cross browser checks is time consuming. At Qxf2 Services, we use Selenium and Python for UI testing of web applications. Recently, we evaluated using BrowserStack to run our automated checks against different browsers. BrowserStack gives you access to all desktop as well as mobile browsers anytime and from anywhere. It gives instant access to 300+ […]
Cross browser testing tools
Problem: Maintaining testing infrastructure for testing across different combinations of browser, browser version and platform is difficult and time consuming. Of late, there are many tools that help testers quickly spin up any combination of browser, browser version and platform. Below, we give a brief outline of some tools that we use at Qxf2 Services for doing cross browser testing. Cross […]