Is there an analog of Selenium Grid?

[anon56850703]

Hi,

I'm very new to testcafe but think about how to integrate it into CI/CD pipelines like a selenium grid.
I would like to run a test against several browser (workers) which are not installed on the jenkins server. Probably some Windows VMs for IEs, some mobile devices and so on. So the jenkins should trigger something like testcafe chrome,ie,android /tests and it picks some workers nodes from a pool and run the tests and report back the results.

Is there a recipe/way to do this? Like a self-hosted browserstack?

Greets

[MarinaRukavitsyna]

Hi @Psi,

You can run tests on remote mobile and desktop devices, which have network access to the TestCafe server. Please refer to the following help topic to learn how to do this:

Browsers on Remote Devices

You can also use Cloud Testing Services.

[anon56850703]

Hi and thank you for your answer.

I know the remote-browser API but it includes a manual step opening the given URL which is not applicable in automated environments.
I want to avoid cloud services.

[MarinaRukavitsyna]

In this case, you need to implement a custom browser provider.
You can also try using testcafe-browser-provider-selenium.

[anon56850703]

So again, back to selenium :\

[MarinaRukavitsyna]

You can implement a custom browser provider

[anon56850703]

Yes of course but this sounds not trivial.

• Implement something like a Testcafe-Hub
• Implement Workers/Nodes which are registred on the Hub
• Implement a browser provider to run the tests on the Nodes provided by the Hub

I hoped anyone has something like that

[miherlosev]

I've created an issue on GitHub - https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe/issues/2436.

[anon56850703]

Thanks!
So should we move further discussions to github?

I see two approaches:

1. Run a second testcafe instance on the node and report the results back
2. Use the node as remote browser wich connects to the testcafe instance on the CI server

the second one has limited features cause screenshots and window resizing is available for remote browsers right?

[anon56850703]

Glad to present you a PoC

testcafe-hub and testcafe-browser-provider-hub

Currently I use JavaScript to open new browser-tabs for the test runs.