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Learn how to use Jasmine for BDD framework to configure and run your JavaScript automation testing scripts on the LambdaTest platform
- Pre-requisites
- Run Your First Test
- Avoid Timeouts With psuedoActivityInternal
- Testing Locally Hosted or Privately Hosted Projects
In order to perform your karma tests with LambdaTest, you would need the below things to be already set up:
- Make sure to use the latest version of JavaScript.
- A Git or GitHub repository
- Download and install node.js and node package manager or npm.
- To install node.js with homebrew use the below command.
$ brew install node
- If you have npm already installed, you may want to upgrade it to latest version. Here the code you can run in your terminal to upgrade npm.
npm install npm@latest -g
Be aware of your LambdaTest authentication credentials i.e. your LambdaTest username, access key and HubURL. You need to set them up as your environment variables. You can retrieve them from your LambdaTest automation dashboard by clicking on the key icon near the help button.
- For Linux/Mac:
$ export LT_USERNAME=<YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME>
$ export LT_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY>- For Windows:
$ set LT_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY>
$ set LT_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY>You need to clone our GitHub repository which demonstrates a sample of Karma-Jasmine.
After cloning, you need to navigate to the cloned directory and install project dependencies using the below command:
$ npm install
The example mentioned below would help you to perform Jasmine testing in Google Chrome.
describe('add', function () {
it('should add two numbers and return the result', function () {
expect(window.add(1, 2)).toBe(3);
});
});
describe('subtract', function () {
it('should subtract two numbers', function () {
expect(window.subtract(2, 1)).toBe(1);
});
});
describe('updateAppState', function () {
it('should push a new state into the browser history', function () {
window.updateAppState({
message: 'Getting Started with LambdaTest'
});
expect(window.history.state).toEqual({
message: 'Getting Started with LambdaTest'
})
});
});To help you perform cross browser testing of your locally stored web pages, LambdaTest provides an SSH(Secure Shell) tunnel connection with the name LambdaTest tunnel. With LambdaTest tunnel, you can run your Jasmine tests using Karma to perform automated cross browser testing on browsers offered by online Selenium Grid at LambdaTest. So you make sure how well your changes look, even before your customers. Curious to know more about LambdaTest tunnel?
Follow our documentation on LambdaTest tunnel to know it all. OS specific instructions to download and setup tunnel binary can be found at the following links.
Download the binary file of:
Once, the tunnel is successfully set up. You can add the below code to your capabilities for testing internal servers on your network.
//Test Websites Using Localhost
customLaunchers: { chrome: {
tunnel: true, // In case karma is running on local machine
} }Important Note: Some Safari & IE browsers don’t support automatic resolution of the URL string “localhost”. Therefore if you test on URLs like "
http://localhost/" or "http://localhost:8080" etc, you would get an error in these browsers. A possible solution is to use "localhost.lambdatest.com" or replace the string “localhost” with machine IP address. For example, if you wanted to test "http://localhost/dashboard" or, and your machine IP is 192.168.2.6 you can instead test on "http://192.168.2.6/dashboard" or "http://localhost.lambdatest.com/dashboard".
Navigate to the directory where you cloned the sample of Karma-Jasmine and run the following command.
$ karma start karma.conf.js
or you could also run the test using:
$ npm test
If you look at karma.conf.js file you will find that we are passing browser, browser version, and operating system information, along with LambdaTest Selenium grid capabilities via capabilities object. The capabilities object in the above code is defined as:
customLaunchers: {
chrome: {
base: 'WebDriver',
config: webdriverConfig,
browserName: 'chrome',
platform: 'windows 10',
version: '71.0',
name: 'Karma With Heartbeat',
user: process.env.LT_USERNAME,
accessKey: process.env.LT_ACCESS_KEY,
pseudoActivityInterval: 15000 // 15000 ms heartbeat to avoid timeouts
}
}The most important capabilities to understand here are ‘browserName’, ‘version’, and ‘platform’. They define which browser environment you wish to run the test on. Rest of the capabilities are important in test management and debugging. We have an inbuilt Capabilities Generator tool as well that you use to generate capabilities code for your test suite.
To make sure our machines are not hold for long due to some incorrect test, we have come up with a restriction on the number of seconds that our machine is kept reserved for you. In cases, where our servers fail to retrieve a request from your local machine for more than 90 seconds, then your tests are aborted from the queue with the error message related to Timeouts.
If you wish to avoid such timeouts, you need to make use of the below parameter:
customLaunchers: { chrome: {
pseudoActivityInterval: 5000 // 5000 ms heartbeat to avoid timeouts
} }Note: psuedoActivityInternal is presented as a default parameter with a value set to 0. Make sure to provide a value more than 0 in order to avoid the timeouts.
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