BrowserStack support

[Iristyle]

It would be awesome to be able to pipe test runs to a BrowserStack back-end -- see bunyip for examples.

[vojtajina]

Totally.

[appleton]

Agree that this would be a great addition. I'd love to be able to run tests in IE versions from a CI box.

[dignifiedquire]

As I could write it but don't have an account with BrowserStack I just sent them an email if they are willing to give me one for creating this feature. So let's see if they are interested.

[dignifiedquire]

Thanks to BrowserStack I've now got an account with api access. I will start hacking as soon as I find the time!

[rdodev]

Ha, awesome. Hopefully it won't be too painful.

[dignifiedquire]

It won't be done in half an hour but I hope that I'm finished in a few days. I'm thinking about api right now and would suggest the following. (Not sure that it will work but it would be quite nice)

browserStack = {
  user: 'username',
  password: 'secret'
};

browsers = ['BS::Firefox', 'BS::iOS', 'BS::Chrome'];

Any other suggestions?

[appleton]

I think that looks fantastic - it would be great if the API were that simple.

[vojtajina]

Awesome @dignifiedquire ! Having integration with BS would be great.

However, you need a public IP/domain to access testacular running on your machine. How do you want to solve that ?

Do they have http APIs for starting a browser ?

Let me know if you need any help, this is gonna be great !!!

[dignifiedquire]

It's gonna be a little tricky but I think it should work

• yes you will need a way to forward your testacular server, right now I'm using forwardhq's 30 day trial
• Yes I'm using node-browserstack this will allow for starting and stopping the browsers specified + loading specified webpages.
• I'm not really happy with the tunneling it would be great if there was a way to integrate it but I haven't found a free provider with an automatic api for something like that, so if you have any ideas..

[appleton]

https://github.com/shtylman/localtunnel might be worth a look?

[dignifiedquire]

@mrappleton Thanks. That looks great.

[dignifiedquire]

First screenshot of a tunneled testacular connection :)
Still a lot of work to do but it's growing. Progress can be seen here.

[dignifiedquire]

As this thing is a little bit bigger than most other stuff I've started writing about it to document what I'm doing and to let every one know how it's coming along. You can find it here.

[Iristyle]

Maybe the best part about localtunnel is it's tagline expose yourself to the world ... fits perfectly with Testacular ;0

[dignifiedquire]

@Iristyle True story :D

[Iristyle]

In all seriousness though, great work so far -- thanks so much for baking this out... I wish I could have had the time to lend a hand on this one, since it's such a valuable feature to me.

Next time I guess ;0

[airportyh]

BrowserStack now offers its own tunneling from the command line http://www.browserstack.com/local-testing and you can use it through @dbrans's browserstack-cli.

[dignifiedquire]

@airportyh Thanks for the info. Will take it into account as soon as I get to finishing this.

[dignifiedquire]

I will wait with this until the browsers are extracted into their own modules. See #158.

[geddski]

This still on the radar? Would be so nice for CI servers.

[dignifiedquire]

@GEDDesign Yes it is. I want to merge #317 first so this is easier to configure for the user. But as soon as that is done I'll finish this.

[vojtajina]

Sorry, #317 is blocked on me. I'm still thinking what is the best way of
extending the config syntax. I'll get to it, promise.

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done I'll finish this.

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[dhbaird]

Is that new pull request in #317 going to help with this?

[vojtajina]

@dhbaird yep

Guys, check out #533 - and I'm gonna merge it in.

[L42y]

Awesome! browserstack support is coming.

[vojtajina]

There seems to be already launcher for browserstack, check out https://github.com/toolkitchen/karma-browserstack-launcher

Also, if anybody interested in improving this launcher, check out https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-sauce-launcher

So I'm closing this...

[patkujawa-wf]

https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-browserstack-launcher seems to be the continuation of this thread