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Handling timeouts on Automate self-hosted sessions

Learn how to handle session timeouts for your tests running on BrowserStack Automate self-hosted.

Timeouts in automated testing refer to the specified maximum duration a script waits for a condition to be met before throwing an error. In BrowserStack Automate self-hosted, timeouts manage how long a test will wait for actions like page loading, script execution, or element interaction to complete.

This feature is supported only for tests running with Selenium and Cypress framework.

This guide covers the following type of timeouts.

Self-hosted instance idle timeout

Read the Configure different Timeouts documentation to learn how to set test-level timeouts according to your testing requirements.

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