Test localhost and staging websites that are not publicly accessible

BrowserStack can integrate with test suites pointing to your localhost URL, staging environment, and even websites behind one or more proxies/firewalls. This is done using BrowserStack Local - a tunneling feature that establishes a secure connection between your machine and the BrowserStack Cloud.

Prerequisites

BrowserStack Username and Access key. You can find this in your account profile. If you do not have an account yet, you can sign up for a Free Trial or purchase a plan.

Run your Local test

Follow the steps to configure and run your xUnit tests for Local Testing.

1. Clone the xunit-browserstack repository on GitHub that contains BrowserStack’s sample test, if you haven’t already done so:

    git clone -b selenium-4 https://github.com/browserstack/xunit-browserstack.git
   

2. Open the XUnit-BrowserStack.sln solution file in Visual Studio.

3. Update your xUnit App.config file by setting your credentials and by setting the local capability to true.

1. Run a sample test case using the following command, to check whether the Local test connection has been setup properly.

    dotnet test --filter "Category=local"
   

2. You can now run your xUnit test using BrowserStack Local using the following steps:

   1. Build the solution in Visual Studio.
   2. Run the test with fixture local from Test Explorer.

Next steps

After you have successfully run your first test using BrowserStack Local, you can explore the following sections:

• Run multiple tests in parallel to speed up the build execution
• Testing your local site that might be behind a proxy
• Local flags to customize your local testing setup