BrowserStack + Protractor + TravisCi and secure localhost server - configuration - protractor

Question

Trying to have an e2e test to test my server and it's UI on TraviCI. I'm however not able to come up with the necessary configuration in order to run all the components and access seleniumServer on BrowserStack.
I am able to get my session started, but when launching a browser to https://localhost:3000/login I see that the browser shows a page not found. If I manually run the ./BrowserStackLocal tool and use browserstack to access my localhost, I can do so no problem.
Here are my files:
./travis.yaml
....
addons:
browserstack:
username: "<my username>"
access_key:
secure: "<secure key goes here>"
config.js
var browserstack = require('browserstack-local');
exports.config = {
allScriptsTimeout: 11000,
specs: [
'specs/*.js'
],
'seleniumAddress': 'http://hub.browserstack.com/wd/hub',
'capabilities': {
'browserstack.user': '<my username>', //<<--- I also had a version without these properties for browserstack, and that didn't work either
'browserstack.key': '<my key>',
'browserName': 'chrome',
'acceptSslCerts': true,
'browserstack.debug': true,
'chromeOptions': {
'excludeSwitches': ["disable-popup-blocking"]
}
},
baseUrl: 'https://localhost:3000/',
rootElement: 'div[ng-app]',
framework: 'jasmine',
jasmineNodeOpts: {
defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
},
// Code to start browserstack local before start of test
beforeLaunch: function(){
console.log("Connecting local");
return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
exports.bs_local = new browserstack.Local();
exports.bs_local.start({'key': exports.config.capabilities['browserstack.key'] }, function(error) {
if (error) return reject(error);
console.log('Connected. Now testing...');
resolve();
});
});
},
// Code to stop browserstack local after end of test
afterLaunch: function(){
return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
exports.bs_local.stop(resolve);
});
}
};

Answer 1

Since you are testing your local/private environment on BrowserStack Automate you have to follow these steps:
1) Create the Local Testing connection via the BrowserStackLocal Binary.
2) Add the capability 'browserstack.local' : true in your config file.
I do not see the capability in the config.js file. Add the capability and things should work.
Your script looks similar to the one here.

Answer 2

I ran into this same problem myself recently. First, Ashwin is right that you need to add 'browserstack.local' : true to your protractor config file. Next you need to add "browserstack-local": "^1.3.0" to package.json under devDependencies. This is required for the Browserstack Local binary to be installed on your build server.
package.json:
...
"devDependencies": {
"browserstack-local": "^1.3.0"
}
Beyond that, it is not a problem with the config/setup. Rather, it is how you kick off the tests that affects the port your app is served on.
The reason it works when you run with the local binary is because your app is started on http://localhost:3000.
But when you build and run the app via Travis (by running ng e2e or similar), it actually starts your app on a different port (refer to this post for more on the angular ports). You can confirm this by looking at the console log, it should start with something like this:
> ng e2e
** NG Live Development Server is listening on localhost:49152, open your browser on http://localhost:49152 **
In the example above, it started on port 49152. So now if you have localhost:3000 hardcoded somewhere in your test spec, it won't find anything there. To fix this, in your test spec file, instead of browser.get('http://localhost:3000/login'), try browser.get(browser.baseUrl + '/login').
I realize this answer is probably too late for you, but hopefully it will be helpful to others.