grunt-browserstack

BrowserStack tasks for grunt

Getting Started

Install this grunt plugin next to your project's grunt.js gruntfile with: npm install grunt-browserstack

Then add this line to your project's grunt.js gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-browserstack');

Documentation

Exposes 3 tasks:

browserstack_list

Lists the available browsers to the console

browserstack_list: {
  dev: {
    username: 'USERNAME',
    password: 'PASSWORD'
  }
} 

browserstack

Starts the requested workers with BrowserStack. Optionally starts a BrowserStack tunnel to expose a local server to the workers.

This task does not exit untli the user presses a key at which time the workers are stopped again. Errors may occur when stopping the workers if they have timed out in the intervening period.

browserstack: {
  dev: {
    credentials: {
      username: 'USERNAME',
      password: 'PASSWORD'
    },
    // optional tunnel configuration - if omitted a tunnel is not started
    tunnel: {
      // your BrowserStack API key
      key: 'KEY',
      // a list of hostnames and ports to expose
      hosts: [{
        name: 'HOSTNAME',
        port: PORT,
        sslFlag: 0
      }]
    },
    // required worker start configuration
    start: {
      // time to wait for workers to start running
      queueTimeout: QUEUE_TIMEOUT,
      // default URL for started workers
      url: 'URL',
      // default timeout for started workers
      timeout: TIMEOUT,
      // list of browser types to start, as returned from the list function
      browsers: [{
        os: 'OS',
        browser: 'BROWSER',
        version: 'VERSION',
        // override the default URL
        url: 'URL',
        // override the default worker timeout
        timeout: TIMEOUT
      }, {
        os: 'OS',
        browser: 'BROWSER',
        version: 'VERSION',
        // override the default URL
        url: 'URL',
        // override the default worker timeout
        timeout: TIMEOUT
      }]
    }
  }
}

browserstack_clean

Stops all currently running workers for the given account. For the purposes of cleaning up orphaned workers when needed

browserstack_clean: {
  dev: {
    username: 'USERNAME',
    password: 'PASSWORD'
  }
} 

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using grunt.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Peter Halliday
Licensed under the MIT license.