Test with sample data

It’s easy to test scenarios that require the device to be set up with sample test data ( e.g., photos, videos, contacts, etc. ) so that it’s made available to your application during test execution. There are multiple ways of how you can achieve this on BrowserStack:

• Use pre-loaded media files
• Use pre-loaded contacts
• Upload your own media files
• Use Appium’s push and pull file commands

Use pre-loaded media files

We have uploaded some pre-set images and videos on our devices for you to test your flows involving images or videos easily. The details for these media files are as follows:

Use pre-loaded contacts

We have pre-loaded our devices with sample contacts for you to easily test scenarios that need access to contacts from the device. These sample contacts are dummy data and intended to be used exclusively for testing. You can download these sample contacts for your reference.

Upload your own media files

You can also use your own media files for testing. Before starting test execution, you first need to upload these media files using REST API. The REST API response will return a media_url for each successful file upload. Use this value to set browserstack.uploadMedia capability in your Appium test scripts. BrowserStack will fetch and download these media files to the device at the beginning of the test execution.

Example :

DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
desiredCapabilities.setCapability("browserstack.uploadMedia", new String[]{"media://21d66a8a0471097bbf5789330129e9ab97e467e3","media://4d5f6w4h6dq19fg4nl9o5e9ab97d1s1y0i9kl2d3d"});

var capabilities = {
	'browserstack.uploadMedia': ['media://21d66a8a0471097bbf5789330129e9ab97e467e3','media://4d5f6w4h6dq19fg4nl9o5e9ab97d1s1y0i9kl2d3d']
}

DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
capability.SetCapability("browserstack.uploadMedia", new[] {"media://21d66a8a0471097bbf5789330129e9ab97e467e3","media://4d5f6w4h6dq19fg4nl9o5e9ab97d1s1y0i9kl2d3d"});

$capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
$capabilities->setCapability("browserstack.uploadMedia", ["media://21d66a8a0471097bbf5789330129e9ab97e467e3","media://4d5f6w4h6dq19fg4nl9o5e9ab97d1s1y0i9kl2d3d"]);

desired_cap = {
	'browserstack.uploadMedia': ['media://21d66a8a0471097bbf5789330129e9ab97e467e3','media://4d5f6w4h6dq19fg4nl9o5e9ab97d1s1y0i9kl2d3d']
}

desired_caps = {
    'browserstack.uploadMedia': ['media://21d66a8a0471097bbf5789330129e9ab97e467e3','media://4d5f6w4h6dq19fg4nl9o5e9ab97d1s1y0i9kl2d3d']
}

Access uploaded media files during testing

During test execution, you can access your uploaded media files as follows:

• Android: Default gallery app.
  The file path is /sdcard/Pictures for images and /sdcard/Movies for videos.
• iOS: Camera Roll.
  The file path to camera roll directory is /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/.
  

Appium’s push and pull file command

During testing, you can also use Appium’s push file command to copy your own files (media, data, text,etc.) to the device and pull file command to retrieve files from the device.

// Push a file
driver.pushFile("/sdcard/Download/image.jpg", new File("/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image.jpg"));

// Pull file
byte[] fileBase64 = driver.pullFile("/sdcard/Download/image.jpg");

// Push a file
let data = new Buffer("Hello World").toString('base64');
driver.pushFile('/sdcard/Download/file.txt', data);

// Pull file
let data = driver.pullFile('/sdcard/Download/file.txt');

// Push a file
driver.PushFile("/sdcard/Download/image.jpg", new FileInfo("/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image.jpg"))

// Pull file
byte[] fileBase64 = driver.PullFile("/sdcard/Download/image.jpg");

// Push a file
$driver->pushFile('/sdcard/Download/file.txt', 'QXJlIHlvdXIgYmVlcnMgb2theT8=');

// Pull file
$data = $driver->pullFile('/sdcard/Download/file.txt');

# Push a file
dest_path = '/sdcard/Download/file.txt'
driver.push_file(dest_path, 'Hello World'.encode("utf-8"))

# Pull file
file_base64 = driver.pull_file(dest_path)

# Push a file
driver.push_file('/sdcard/Download/image.jpg', File.read('/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image.jpg'))

# Pull file
pull_file('/sdcard/Download/image.jpg')

// Push an image file
driver.pushFile("@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image.jpg", new File("/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image.jpg"));

// Pull file
byte[] fileBase64 = driver.pullFile("@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image.jpg");

// webdriver.io example
let data = new Buffer("Hello World").toString('base64');
driver.pushFile('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/file.txt', data);

// Pull file
let data = driver.pullFile('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/file.txt');

// Push an image file
driver.PushFile("@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image.jpg", new FileInfo("/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image.jpg"))

// Pull file
byte[] fileBase64 = driver.PullFile("@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image.jpg");

$driver->pushFile('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/foo.bar', 'QXJlIHlvdXIgYmVlcnMgb2theT8=');

// Pull file
$data = $driver->pullFile('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/foo.bar');

# Push an image file
driver.push_file('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image1.png', source_path='/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image1.png')

# Push a text file
dest_path = '@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/file.txt'
driver.push_file(dest_path, 'Hello World'.encode("utf-8"))

# Pull file
file_base64 = driver.pull_file(dest_path)

# Push an image file
driver.push_file('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image.jpg', File.read('/Users/johndoe/Desktop/image.jpg'))

# Pull file
pull_file('@com.browserstack.Sample-iOS:documents/image.jpg')