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BrowserStack is a cloud service providing web browsers and mobile devices for both manual and automated testing.

Testing in Browsers

Test in real browsers including Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 (with metro mode).

Testing Android/iOS Apps

Use App Live for manual testing an app on a wide range of different OS versions or use App-Automate to automate the tests to be run on the cloud.

Official real mobile devices and emulators

Provides a wide range of real iOS and Android devices for testing on a combination of various browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari.

Also, supports Windows phone and tablets emulators. Which allows users to test on different combinations.

Test local and internal servers

You can test against any internal/private server or local HTML designs in their remote browsers through our secure tunnel setup via BrowserStack Local Binary support.

Pre-installed developer tools

BrowserStack provides dev tools in real-mobiles which enables debugging cross-browser issues in realtime. For quick cross-browser testing and debugging on Windows or macOS, browsers come with preinstalled tools like Firebug, Developer Toolbar.

Multiple Desktop OS

Test on multiple flavors of Windows and Mac OSX Operating systems.

Screenshots

Screenshots tool provides a quick snapshot of a page by capturing screenshots on a combination of selected devices.

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how do I set up local testing in browserstack

I am using browserstack to test some devices, like IE. However I need to set up local testing so I can test my site localhost:3000 I have logged in to browserstack in Chrome and installed the extension. I click on the extension IE11 link. It takes…
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Browserstack reports successful even when test fails in Nightwatchjs

I just started using nightwatch with browserstack and I'm noticing that when we get a failed test, nightwatch registers the failure, but browserstack does not. sample test I am using. Also I am using free trial version of BrowserStack. My question…
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NodeJS, fs.readFileSync string-by-string reading, and operating. How?

Sorry for so dumb question, How i can in NodeJS read from file string by string some value, for example - url, and do operation with each string eventually? var contents = fs.readFileSync('test.txt', 'utf8'); and what then? It's need for…
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How to fake stream to Chrome instead of using WebCam

I am writing a test automation framework using Java and Selenium. I am running the tests both locally and also using Browserstack. The website under tests includes features that use the PC's camera to scan documents and faces. Instead of using the…
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Is it possible to have Travis-ci trigger another repository's build?

I am trying to wrap my head around Travis-ci scripts but I am trying to figure out if what I want is even possible: Repo #1: - my app to be built via travis-ci Repo #2: - contains selenium/nightwatch tests that should run once repo #1 is finished…
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Total test execution time using karma runner

We've currently switched to running unit tests remotely on browserstack in multiple browsers on multiple operating systems with the help of karma-browserstack-launcher plugin. Currently the output of the test run looks like this: $ grunt…
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What is the point with the browserstack.com API?

BrowserStack is a powerful platform for testing web sites against the most current and modern browser. So far so good. BrowserStack also provides an API The API has the concept of a worker representing a specific browser (version) loading a…
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BrowserStack Error- [browserstack.local] is set to true but local testing through BrowserStack is not connected

While trying to execute a Selenium test on BrowserStack with the capability 'browserstack.local' as 'true' I am getting the following exception- org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: [browserstack.local] is set to true but local testing through…
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How to run ReactNative Based app on Browserstack-Automate/ App-live?

My Test app is ReactNative based native app (both Android & iOS) There's the dependency on 'Metro Bundler' in order for data to get populated. How to make sure that Metro Bundler dependency is run, when tried to access the development app on…
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Passing arguments to execFile in node

I am trying to connect to browserstack using their binary and passing my key as an argument. if I do this in a terminal window: ./BrowserStackLocal --key ${BROWSERSTACK_KEY} Connection succeeds, my key is passed as expected. However I wish to run…
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Selenium WebDriver Safari (11.0) TypeError: Value is not a sequence

I'm trying to automate some regression tests for a site using Selenium but get the below console errors in Safari 11.0 whenever the WebDriver extension is active (not there when disabled): TypeError: Value is not a sequence TypeError: Not enough…
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Ho do I capture ctrl + click on MacOS with d3js

I got a report that my script which should trigger on ctrl + click does not work on Mac. Like shown in "Determine if Shift key is pressed during mousedown event" we can determine if modifier keys are pressed during a mouse click testing…
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Capture full-height screenshots from Browserstack with Nightwatch

I want to capture full-height screenshots from a Nightwatch test, using Browserstack - I can capture the visible screen, but not the entire document. I've tried this: browser.execute(function () { // get document dimensions }, [], function…
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Browserstack Win7 IE10 not playing HTML5 videos

I've been building a website that uses HTML5 video. I started testing with Browserstack and everything looked good, until I got to Windows 7 IE10. Any video element simply wont load the .mp4 on Browserstack. It just shows a blank screen. Examples of…
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Browser Stack Local not starting

I am trying to test a web application running locally on localhost:3000 using BrowserStack to test different mobile resolutions. I've used this feature before with no issues but for some reason the "BrowserStackLocal" application is not running.…
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