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Common Desired Capabilities

Below are a few of the most commonly used Desired Capabilities in executions using Testsigma:

Chrome

Description Capability Data Type Value
Accept insecure/expired certificates acceptInsecureCerts boolean true
Changing User Agent goog:chromeOptions String {"args":["--user-agent=USER_AGENT_STRING_HERE"]}

For Example:
{"args":["--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; <Android Version>; <Build Tag etc.>) AppleWebKit/<WebKit Rev> (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/<Chrome Rev> Mobile Safari/<WebKit Rev>"]}
Adding a single Chrome Extension to session goog:chromeOptions String {"extensions":["path/to/extension"]}

More details:
How to add Chrome Extension to a session using Desired Capabilities
Adding Chrome Extensions to session goog:chromeOptions String {"extensions":["path/to/extension1"],["path/to/extension2"]}

More details:
How to add Chrome Extension to a session using Desired Capabilities
Setting mobile device Emulation goog:chromeOptions String {"mobileEmulation":{"deviceName":"iPhone X"}}

More details:
How to set Desired Capabilities for emulating Mobile devices using Chrome Browser
Disabling Browser Notifications goog:chromeOptions String {“args”:[“--disable-notifications”]}
Setting custom profile for Browser data goog:chromeOptions String {"args":["user-data-dir=/path/to/your/custom/profile"]}

More details:
How to open Chrome with the user-defined profile in Testsigma using Desired Capabilities
Setting the Geolocation (Chrome)
  • goog:chromeOptions
  • geolocation
    		•
  • String
  • String
    		•  {"profile.default_content_setting_values.geolocation": 1 }

    51.50735, -0.12776, 100

    More details:
    How to manually set a geographical location for Test Cases using Desired Capabilities
    Bypassing Chrome download protection
    (Keep/discard promptly for file downloads)    		 goog:chromeOptions String {"prefs":{"safebrowsing.enabled":"true"}}

    More details:
    How to bypass or avoid unsafe download prompt for Google Chrome?
    Enable the provision of notifications and the inclusion of fabricated media streams.
  • goog:chromeOptions
  • goog:chromeOptions
  • goog:chromeOptions
    		•
  • String
  • String
  • String
    		•
  • {"args":["--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream"]}
  • {"args":["--use-fake-device-for-media-stream"]}
  • {"args":["--auto-select-desktop-capture-source=Entire screen"]}
    		•
    Disable Chrome Alert Notifications goog:chromeOptions String {"args":["--disable-notifications"]}

    Morzilla Firefox

    Description Capability Name Data Type Value
    Setting the Geolocation (Firefox) firefoxprofile String {"geo.prompt.testing": true,
    "geo.prompt.testing.allow": true,
    "geo.enabled": true,
    "geo.wifi.uri":
    "data:application/json,{"location": {"lat": 34.052235, "lng": -118.243683}, "accuracy": 100.0}"
    }

    More details:
    How to manually set a geographical location for Test Cases using Desired Capabilities
    Accept insecure/expired certificates accept_untrusted_certs boolean True

    Microsoft Edge

    Description Capability Name Data Type Value
    Accept insecure/expired certificates acceptInsecureCerts boolean True

    Execution Timeouts Specific in Testsigma Labs

    Description Capability Name Data Type Value
    Settings user-defined Step timeout duration - As a safety measure to prevent tests from running too long after something has gone wrong, Testsigma limits how long a browser can wait for a test to send a new command. idleTimeout Integer 90

    minimum - 0
    default - 90
    maximum - 1000

    More details:
    How to set Sauce Labs environment-specific settings(step timeout, maximum test duration ) in Testsigma
    Settings user-defined maximum test duration - As a safety measure to prevent tests from running indefinitely, Sauce limits the duration of tests to 30 minutes by default. maxDuration Integer 3600

    minimum - 0
    default - 3600
    maximum - 10800

    More details:
    How to set Sauce Labs environment-specific settings(step timeout, maximum test duration ) in Testsigma

    Environment Customizations in Testsigma Labs

    Description Capability Data Type Value
    Setting the Timezone of the execution Environment timeZone String Madrid
    You can get the list of Timezone locations from here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

    Use the City name without the Continent Name and replace underscores with space
    Getting Excecution Console log of each url extendedDebugging Boolean True

    More details:
    Enable Browser Console Debugging logs

    Environment Customizations in BrowserStack

    Description Capability Data Type Value
    Enable Visual Logs in BrowserStack browserstack.debug Boolean true
    Enable Local Testing in BrowserStack browserstack.local Boolean true
    Enable Browser Console logs in Browserstack String warnings

    More details:
    Enable Browser Console Debugging logs

    Android Specific

    Description Capability Data Type Value
    Persist App data in local Android devices across Hybrid Test sessions noReset boolean true
    Automatically grant required app permissions based on the Android manifest during installation. autoGrantPermissions boolean true

    iOS Specific

    Description Capability Data Type Value
    Automatically approve all permission pop-ups, including privacy access requests for location, contacts, and photos. autoAcceptAlerts boolean true
    Automatically dismiss all permission pop-ups, including privacy access permissions like location, contacts, and photos. autoDismissAlerts boolean true
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