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Run Ranorex tests with Automate

A step-by-step guide to running Ranorex tests with BrowserStack Automate

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Ranorex is a GUI test automation framework which helps to execute testing of applications. It is designed to create automated test scripts without coding. Integrating Ranorex with BrowserStack will help you to run Ranorex recorded test scripts on 3000+ real devices and desktop browsers.

This guide helps you in:

Getting started with Ranorex

  1. Start Ranorex and click on New solution via wizard as shown below:

    Start Ranorex and create a new solution via wizard

  2. Select Web to test over different browsers.

    Select web to test over different browsers

  3. Provide the Solution name and Location to store solution and select Continue.

    Provide the solution name and location to store solution

  4. Specify the test URL and browser on which you would like to perform cross browser testing.

    Specify the test URL and browser on which you would like to perform cross browser testing

  5. Select your recording behaviour as Do not use whitelisting as shown below:

    Select Do not use whitelisting as your test recording behavior

  6. Select Finish to complete creating of solution.

    Select Finish to complete creating the solution

Setting up WebDriver Endpoint to run tests on BrowserStack Automate

  1. After successfully creating a solution, you will notice that a default test suite would be configured in Ranorex. The test suite has three files OpenBrowser, which contains step to open the browser with the URL specified in Step 4 of Getting started with Ranorex section, Recording1, which contains all the steps executed on the URL, and CloseBrowser, containing steps to close the application.

    Solution home page in ranorex

  2. To run the test suite on Selenium Grid offered by BrowserStack, add the BrowserStack endpoint by selecting the Endpoints from View tab:

    Select Endpoint from view menu to create an Endpoint

  3. From the Endpoints window, select Add Endpoint:

    From the Endpoints window, select on Add Endpoint option

  4. Select WebDriver in Select endpoint type section, provide an Endpoint name and Address(Hub URL). You can check your connection by clicking on Test connection. Click on Add endpoint as shown in the below figure:

    Add the endpoint name, Hub address and test the connection

  5. You have successfully setup a WebDriver endpoint for BrowserStack Selenium Grid Hub URL.

    Successful setup of the BrowserStack Selenium Grid Hub URL

Executing Ranorex tests on BrowserStack Automate

  1. To execute Ranorex test on BrowserStack you need to add a new configuration to set up the BrowserStack desired capabilities, this can be achieved by selecting the Endpoints tab, select the View details option from the endpoint that you added.

    Viewing endpoint details in Ranorex Click on Add new configuration

  2. Add the following capabilities in Capabilities JSON section (you can refer to the capabilities generator to add other capabilities of your choice), and add a name to the configuration in the Name field and Save it.

      {
     "browserstack.user" : "YOUR_USERNAME",
     "browserstack.key" : "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
     ....
      }
    
  3. Now, from the drop-down of Active configuration, select the configuration that you added in the previous steps:

    Selecting the active configuration in Ranorex

  4. Now, go to the test suite, select Recording1 and add new actions after clicking the Record button. Ensure to select Admin localhost Endpoint while recording the test cases.

    Recording test example using Record button in Ranorex

  5. You will find your actions are being recorded.

    Recorded step in Ranorex

  6. Once the configuration of open browser, recording, and close browser file is complete, come back to your test-suite and ensure that you have WebDriver set as an Endpoint to run the test on BrowserStack.

    Set BrowserStack endpoint for Ranorex test runs

  7. Select Run to run the test with all the recorded steps and with specific configurations on BrowserStack.

    Running Ranorex test

  8. You will find that the test executes with specific configurations on the BrowserStack Automate dashboard, and a Ranorex report will be genearted based on the test execution status as shown below:

    Final result after running

Testing privately hosted websites using Ranorex on BrowserStack

BrowserStack enables you to run automated tests on your internal development environments, on localhost, and from behind a corporate firewall. This feature is called “Local Testing”.

Local Testing establishes a secure connection between your machine and the BrowserStack cloud. Once you set up Local Testing, all URLs work out of the box, including HTTPS URLs and those behind a proxy or firewall.

Enabling Local Testing with Automate is a simple two-step process:

  1. Establishing a Local Testing connection.
  2. Configuring setup so that your tests run through the Local Testing connection.

Enabling Local testing with Automate

You can setup the Local testing connection between your system and BrowserStack cloud by following the steps below:

./BrowserStackLocal --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
BrowserStackLocal.exe --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
  • Your Local testing connection has now been established. You need to configure your tests test capabilities as shown in the next section.

The Local Testing connection is persistent. Your machine and BrowserStack Cloud remain connected unless you explicitly end the connection. Hence, close the connection after test execution is complete.

The Local Testing setup will differ slightly based on your requirements (for example, proxy settings, restricting connections to certain domains, etc.). Refer to our complete list of flags to set up Local Testing for different environments/network configurations.

Configuring tests to run with Local Testing connection

You have to keep in mind that while recording your Ranorex tests, you have recorded it for a private website like https://localhost.com. Now, to run that recorded test on BrowserStack, you have to add the following capability in the Capabilities config of Ranorex as shown in Point 2 of executing Ranorex tests on BrowserStack Automate section:

{
  "browserstack.local" : "true"
}

The binary connection needs to be established before creating a test session, and disconnected only after test execution is complete.

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