BrowserStack Integration with Robot Framework Selenium 4 (Python)

Prerequisite

python3 should be installed

Setup

• Clone the repo

  git clone -b sdk https://github.com/browserstack/robot-browserstack.git
  

• It is recommended to use a virtual environment to install dependencies. To create a virtual environment:

  python3 -m venv env
  source env/bin/activate # on Mac
  env\Scripts\activate # on Windows
  

• Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

Set BrowserStack Credentials

• Add your BrowserStack username and access key in the browserstack.yml config fle.

• You can also export them as environment variables, BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME and BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY:

  For Linux/MacOS

  export BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME=<browserstack-username>
  export BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY=<browserstack-access-key>
  

  For Windows

  set BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME=<browserstack-username>
  set BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY=<browserstack-access-key>
  
  setx BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME=<browserstack-username>
  setx BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY=<browserstack-access-key>
  

Running tests

• To run sample tests:
  • To run the sample tests in parallel across the platforms defined in the browserstack.yml file, run:

    browserstack-sdk robot ./tests/test-*.robot
    

• To run tests on locally hosted websites:
  • To run the local test in parallel across the platforms defined in the browserstack.yml file, run:

    browserstack-sdk robot ./tests/local-test.robot
    

Understand how many parallel sessions you need by using our Parallel Test Calculator

Additional Resources

• Documentation for writing Automate test scripts in Python
• Customizing your tests on BrowserStack
• Browsers & mobile devices for selenium testing on BrowserStack
• Using REST API to access information about your tests via the command-line interface