Automated testing with Cucumber on BrowserStack of site behind VPN - ruby

Question

I am trying to get my Cucumber tests to work on BrowserStack. The problem is that our test environments are all behind a VPN. BrowserStack's docs say, just set up local testing and it will just work!. It doesn't. The tests start up, but they are not being rerouted through my local machine to pick up my vpn credentials.
I downloaded the binary as instructed by BrowserStack. I started it up with the command
~ ./BrowserStackLocal <my BS key> -forcelocal
Then I run my test with (in a different terminal window):
bundle exec cucumber CURRENT_BROWSER=browserstack features/01_login.feature
my env.rb looks like this:
require 'cucumber/rails'
Capybara.default_selector = :css
cb = ENV['CURRENT_BROWSER']
testbrowser = cb ? cb.downcase.to_sym : :firefox
puts "-------------- current browser: #{testbrowser}........."
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
if RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'][/linux/] && testbrowser.to_s.eql?("CHROME".downcase)
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, {:browser => :remote, :url => "http://127.0.0.1:9515"})
else
if testbrowser.eql?(:chrome)
prefs = {
:download => {
:prompt_for_download => false,
:default_directory => DownloadHelpers::PATH.to_s
}
}
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome, :prefs => prefs, :switches => %w[--test-type])
elsif testbrowser.eql?(:browserstack)
stackToUse = ENV['BS_STACK'] || 'ie_9'
json = JSON.load(open(File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'browsers.json'))))
config = json[stackToUse]
unless config
puts "invalid BS_STACK specified. Was '#{stackToUse}'"
return
end
# Add default config
config['name'] = "#{config['os']} #{config['os_version']} - #{Time.now.strftime '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'}"
config['acceptSslCert'] = true
config['browserstack.debug'] = true
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :remote, :desired_capabilities => config, :url => "http://<BS_USERNAME>:<BS_PASSKEY>#hub.browserstack.com/wd/hub")
elsif testbrowser.eql?(:internetexplorer)
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :internetexplorer, :switches => %w[--test-type])
else
profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile
profile["browser.download.dir"] = DownloadHelpers::PATH.to_s
profile["browser.download.folderList"] = 2 # 2 - save to user defined location
profile["browser.download.manager.alertOnEXEOpen"] = false
profile["browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk"] = "application/msword, application/csv, application/ris, text/csv, image/png, application/pdf, text/html, text/plain, application/zip, application/x-zip, application/x-zip-compressed, application/download, application/octet-stream, data:application/csv"
profile["browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force"] = false
profile["browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting"] = false
profile["browser.download.manager.focusWhenStarting"] = false
profile["browser.download.useDownloadDir"] = true
profile["browser.download.manager.alertOnEXEOpen"] = false
profile["browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone"] = true
profile["browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete"] = false
profile["browser.download.manager.useWindow"] = false
profile["services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting"] = false
profile["pdfjs.disabled"] = true
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => testbrowser, :profile => profile)
end
end
end
ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = false
# Remove/comment out the lines below if your app doesn't have a database.
# For some databases (like MongoDB and CouchDB) you may need to use :truncation instead.
begin
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
rescue NameError
raise "You need to add database_cleaner to your Gemfile (in the :test group) if you wish to use it."
end
# You may also want to configure DatabaseCleaner to use different strategies for certain features and scenarios.
# See the DatabaseCleaner documentation for details. Example:
#
# Before('#no-txn,#selenium,#culerity,#celerity,#javascript') do
# # { :except => [:widgets] } may not do what you expect here
# # as tCucumber::Rails::Database.javascript_strategy overrides
# # this setting.
# DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
# end
#
# Before('~#no-txn', '~#selenium', '~#culerity', '~#celerity', '~#javascript') do
# DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
# end
#
# Possible values are :truncation and :transaction
# The :transaction strategy is faster, but might give you threading problems.
# See https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-rails/blob/master/features/choose_javascript_database_strategy.feature
Cucumber::Rails::Database.javascript_strategy = :truncation
Other people use these same tests and we have written dozens, so making sure that I can still run these tests locally is paramount.
When I do run the tests, it begins to run on browserstack, but it can't reach any of the sites I have tried telling it to reach. Including http://localhost:3000/login I have contacted BrowserStack support and they asked if I had set up local testing.
The only error I am getting is that the test can't find the CSS element to login. When I watched the automated test through browserstack I can see that it isn't reaching the page. It just says "Oops! This link appears to be broken." Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Answer 1

The support at BrowserStack got back to me. I had to had another config property like so to the env.rb:
config['browserstack.local'] = true
Now my only problem is that none of the features that we wrote seem to work on IE. So I can test chrome or firefox on browserstack, but I already had that capability set up.