Selenium with JUnit 4
Your guide to running tests using JUnit 4 on BrowserStack’s Selenium Grid of 3000+ real devices and desktop browsers.
Prerequisites
- You need to have BrowserStack Username and Access key, which you can find in your account profile. If you have not created an account yet, you can sign up for a Free Trial.
- JUnit v4, Java v8+, Selenium v2.5+ (JSON Wire / W3C).
- If you are using CLI for running tests, ensure that Maven is installed on your machine, its environment variables are set, and its bin is added to system path,
$PATH.
Run a sample build
Run a sample JUnit 4 test build using your preferred method on BrowserStack:
Get Sample Project
Get our sample project using one of the following options:
Option 1: Download Project
Option 2: Via Git
Clone our sample Git repository using the code snippet:
Option 3: Via Maven Archetype
Maven archetype lets you create a new sample project with your BrowserStack credentials pre-configured.
The following command creates a project named as junit4-browserstack with sample test scripts.
Configure your browserstack.yml config file
The browerstack.yml file holds all the required capabilities to run your tests on BrowserStack.
Set access credentials
Set userName and accessKey properties in the browserstack.yml to authenticate your tests on BrowserStack.
Select desktop browsers or real devices from a list of 3000+ available combinations:
Update the browserstack.yml config file
Copy and replace the platforms object in the browserstack.yml file available in the root directory of this project.
Run sample tests on BrowserStack!
Run the following commands from the junit-4 directory to install dependencies and run a sample test build on BrowserStack:
Get Sample Project
Download project
After downloading the sample project, unzip it in the desired location.
Import the downloaded project
Click File → Import. Expand General, select Projects from Folder or Archive, and click Next. Then, navigate to the unzipped downloaded project, select the junit-4 directory, and click Open.
Configure your browserstack.yml config file
Configure a few parameters in the sample repo to start testing.
Set access credentials
Set the userName and accessKey capabilities in the browserstack.yml to authenticate your tests on BrowserStack.
Select desktop browsers or real devices from a list of 3000+ available combinations:
Update the browserstack.yml config file
Copy and replace the platforms object in the browserstack.yml file available in the root directory of this project.
Run sample tests on BrowserStack
Right-click your pom.xml file and click Run As → Maven Test:
Facing issues when running JUnit test?
If the test doesn’t run in parallel on multiple browsers/devices, or the tests don’t run as per capabilities specified in the browserstack.yml file, complete the following steps to resolve it:
- Get .m2 repository path for
browserstack-java-sdkjar
- Go to the test file, right-click on it, and select Run as -> Run Configurations.
- Click the Arguments tab, add the .m2 repository path in the VM arguments input field, and click Apply -> Run.
Get Sample Project
Download project
After downloading the sample project, unzip it in the desired location.
Import the downloaded project
Click File → Open, navigate to the unzipped downloaded project, select the junit-4 directory, and click Open.
Configure your browserstack.yml config file
Configure a few parameters in the sample repo to start testing.
Set access credentials
Set the userName and accessKey capabilities in the browserstack.yml to authenticate your tests on BrowserStack.
Select desktop browsers or real devices from a list of 3000+ available combinations:
Update the browserstack.yml config file
Copy and replace the platforms object in the browserstack.yml file available in the root directory of this project.
Run sample tests on BrowserStack
Run the tests using the following steps:
Click the Maven tool window on the right-hand side. If you can’t see the tool window, click View -> Tool Windows -> Maven to enable it:
Under Profiles, select the profiles for running tests:
Expand the Lifecycle drop-down, and then double-click test to run the tests:
Next steps
After you have successfully run your first test on BrowserStack, try integrating your test suite with BrowserStack.
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