BrowserStack GitHub Actions

This respository contains a library of GitHub Actions to help you integrate your test suite with the BrowserStack device cloud.

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Available Actions

• setup-env: This Action helps in setting up the required environment variables that are to be used in your test scripts. The environment variables set up here shall be used by other BrowserStack actions as well for their functioning.

• setup-local: This Action downloads and starts the appropriate BrowserStackLocal binary, thereby creating a secure tunnel connection from the GitHub Actions runner environment to the BrowserStack device cloud. This secure tunnel will be used by the remote browsers in BrowserStack to access your web application hosted in the GitHub Actions runner environment. You do not need this Action if the application to be tested is accessible over the public internet.

Prerequisites

• You should set your BrowserStack Username and Access Key as GitHub Secrets, i.e. BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME and BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY respectively.

Usage

As this is a library of Actions, invoking this Action will trigger the setup-env Action internally. The following usage example will only set up the required environment variables:

- name: BrowserStack Action
  uses: 'browserstack/github-actions@master'
  with:
    username:  ${{ secrets.BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME }}
    access-key: ${{ secrets.BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY }}
    build-name: BUILD_INFO
    project-name: REPO_NAME

We recommend you to invoke the Actions individually depending on the use case. A sample workflow for the same is shown below. You can additionally refer to the individual README (setup-env, setup-local) of the Actions to know more about how they work, the inputs they support and their usage examples.

Sample Workflow with usage of both Actions

The workflow example below would be useful when the web application to be tested is hosted on the GitHub Actions runner environment, i.e. not accessible from the public Internet.

name: 'BrowserStack Test'
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  ubuntu-job:
    name: 'BrowserStack Test on Ubuntu'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 'BrowserStack Env Setup'
        uses: 'browserstack/github-actions/setup-env@master'
        with:
          username:  ${{ secrets.BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME }}
          access-key: ${{ secrets.BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY }}
          build-name: BUILD_INFO
          project-name: REPO_NAME
      - name: 'BrowserStackLocal Setup'
        uses: 'browserstack/github-actions/setup-local@master'
        with:
          local-testing: start
          local-identifier: random

Note

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Post these steps, you will have to build and run your application web server on the same runner environment. Further, invoke your test scripts by utilizing the environment variables that have been set by actions. For more detailed steps on how to integrate your test suite with BrowserStack on GitHub Actions, visit BrowserStack Documentation for the same.

After you are done running your tests, invoke the setup-local Action again with local-testing: stop as the input:

      - name: 'BrowserStackLocal Stop'
        uses: 'browserstack/github-actions/setup-local@master'
        with:
          local-testing: stop

Feature requests and bug reports

Please file feature requests and bug reports as github issues.