Nightwatch Automated Browser Testing
See our NightWatch example repository for a simple example on how to run NightWatch tests in parallel on TestingBot.
Install Nightwatch:
Now, you'll need to create a settings file so that Nightwatch knows it needs to connect to our Selenium Grid.
Open settings.json
{
"src_folders" : ["tests/"],
"selenium" : {
"start_process" : false,
"host" : "hub.testingbot.com",
"port" : 80
},
"test_settings" : {
"default" : {
"selenium_port": 80,
"selenium_host": "hub.testingbot.com",
"desiredCapabilities": {
"browserName": "firefox",
"platform":"VISTA",
"version":"latest",
"javascriptEnabled": true,
"acceptSslCerts": true,
"api_key": "api_key",
"api_secret": "api_secret"
}
}
}
}tests/google/googleTest.js
module.exports = {
'Google\'s Search Functionality' : function (browser) {
browser
.url('https://www.google.com/ncr')
.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000)
.setValue('input[type=text]', 'TestingBot\n')
.pause(1000)
.assert.title('TestingBot - Google Search')
.end();
}
};To run the test, please run this command:
Configuring capabilities
To run your existing tests on TestingBot, your tests will need to be configured to use the TestingBot remote machines. If the test was running on your local machine or network, you can simply change your existing test like this:
Before: After:Specify Browsers & Devices
To let TestingBot know on which browser/platform/device you want to run your test on, you need to specify the browsername, version, OS and other optional options in the capabilities field.
Testing Internal Websites
We've built TestingBot Tunnel, to provide you with a secure way to run tests against your staged/internal webapps.
Please see our TestingBot Tunnel documentation for more information about this easy to use tunneling solution.
The example below shows how to easily run a NodeJS test with our Tunnel:
1. Download our tunnel and start the tunnel:
2. Adjust your test: instead of pointing to 'hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub' like the example above - change it to point to your tunnel's IP address.
Assuming you run the tunnel on the same machine you run your tests, change to 'localhost:4445/wd/hub'. localhost is the machine running the tunnel, 4445 is the default port of the tunnel.
This way your test will go securely through the tunnel to TestingBot and back:
Run tests in Parallel
Parallel Testing means running the same test, or multiple tests, simultaneously. This greatly reduces your total testing time.
You can run the same tests on all different browser configurations or run different tests all on the same browser configuration.
TestingBot has a large grid of machines and browsers, which means you can use our service to do efficient parallel testing. It is one of the key features we provide to greatly cut down on your total testing time.
To run tests in parallel, you'll need to change your configuration file to use multiple desired capabilties.
Please see the example below:
nightwatch_config = {
src_folders : [ "tests/" ],
selenium : {
"start_process" : false,
"host" : "hub.testingbot.com",
"port" : 80
},
common_capabilities: {
'build': 'nightwatch-testingbot',
'client_key': process.env.TB_KEY || 'api_key',
'client_secret': process.env.TB_SECRET || 'api_secret'
},
test_settings: {
default: {},
chrome: {
desiredCapabilities: {
browser: "chrome"
}
},
firefox: {
desiredCapabilities: {
browser: "firefox"
}
},
safari: {
desiredCapabilities: {
browser: "safari",
version: "latest"
}
},
ie: {
desiredCapabilities: {
browser: "internet explorer"
}
}
}
};
// Code to support common capabilites
for(var i in nightwatch_config.test_settings){
var config = nightwatch_config.test_settings[i];
config['selenium_host'] = nightwatch_config.selenium.host;
config['selenium_port'] = nightwatch_config.selenium.port;
config['desiredCapabilities'] = config['desiredCapabilities'] || {};
for(var j in nightwatch_config.common_capabilities){
config['desiredCapabilities'][j] = config['desiredCapabilities'][j] || nightwatch_config.common_capabilities[j];
}
}
module.exports = nightwatch_config;Queuing
Every plan we provide comes with a limit of parallel tests.
If you exceed the number of parallel tests assigned to your account, TestingBot will queue the additional tests (for up to 6 minutes) and run the tests as soon as slots become available.
Mark tests as passed/failed
As TestingBot has no way to dermine whether your test passed or failed (it is determined by your business logic), we offer a way to send the test status back to TestingBot. This is useful if you want to see if a test succeeded or failed from the TestingBot member area.
Install our NPM package to interact with the TestingBot API:
After your test completed, you can send back the test success state and other meta-data:
exports.command = function(callback) {
var TestingBot = require("testingbot-api");
var tb = new TestingBot({
api_key: process.env.TB_KEY,
api_secret: process.env.TB_SECRET
});
var sessionid = this.capabilities['webdriver.remote.sessionid'],
jobName = this.currentTest.name,
passed = this.currentTest.results.testcases[jobName].failed === 0;
console.log("TestingBotSessionId=" + sessionid);
var self = this
tb.updateTest(sessionid, {
'test[success]': passed,
'test[name]': jobName
}, function () {
self.end(callback)
});
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