Running BrowserStack locally using Selenium causes System.Exception while executing BrowserStackLocal start

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I am trying to connect from Visual Studio 2015 to local BrowserStack to run my applications on a remote server and I have updated this in App.Config file as below. I managed to run them in parallel on BrowserStack cloud using public URL's, but I couldn't make my tests running locally.

<add key="build" value="specflow-browserstack" />
<add key="name" value="local_test" />
<add key="browserstack.debug" value="true" />
<add key="browserstack.local" value="true" />
<add key="browserstack.localIdentifier" value="Test123" />

And also when I launch browserstack local on browser using Chrome addon then I am seeing below error and my test is not running

System.Exception: Eror while executing BrowserStackLocal start 
{"state":"disconnected","pid":6312,"message":"Disconnected"}
at BrowserStack.BrowserStackTunnel.<>c__DisplayClass17_0.

Have you tried running their sample repo for specflow: github.com/browserstack/specflow-browserstack? Also, not sure how this relates to Chrome Add on — BountyHunter
– BountyHunter, Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 14:58
I tried but that one is also throwing same exception at line browserStackLocal.start(bsLocalArgs); — anusha boppudi
– anusha boppudi, Commented Feb 22, 2018 at 12:24

shamnaz purayil · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-02 19:08:01Z

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I Was able to solve this by below piece of code

private Process browserStackLocal;
if (capability.GetCapability("browserstack.local") != null && capability.GetCapability("browserstack.local").ToString() == "true") { 
browserStackLocal = Process.Start(@"E:\BrowserStackLocal-win32\BrowserStackLocal.exe", "--key 8EqNTv4J2C******"); Thread.Sleep(30000); }

public void Cleanup() { driver.Quit(); if (browserStackLocal != null) { browserStackLocal.Kill(); } }

edited Dec 2, 2018 at 19:08

answered Dec 1, 2018 at 19:36

shamnaz purayil

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shamnaz purayil Over a year ago

I just tried to run the BrowserStackLocal.exe locally . it's just a work around

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