Browser Stack Local Testing Parellel Test

Question

I need to run my all test cases in parallel of 4 different browser. On my chrome driver its work fine.

Problem arise when i try to run in parallel as local testing.

I get following error com.browserstack.local.LocalException: *** Error: Either another browserstack local client is running on your machine or some server is listening on port 45691

I am using TestNG as my test runner.

Answer 1

It is too late but maybe it is good for other developers.

I do not know in which language you are programming but if you are using java and using the browserstack-local-java which has poor documentation :(

You need to add browserstack.localIdentifier = "specific id" to the capabilities when you create the WebDriver

At the same time when creating the com.browserstack.local.Local which calls ./BrowserStackLocal under the hood you need to specify an option called localIdentifier and it must have the same value as the browserstack.localIdentifier.

This is not documented but I tested it and it works and take a look on https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio/issues/2252