Set desired capabilities for TestCloud environment

In your Katalon project, you can set desired capabilities for browsers and applications. When executing your test with TestCloud environment on TestOps, these desired capabilities will be applied.

Here are some common use cases that desired capabilities become useful for web and mobile testing:

• Chrome/Chrome (headless): start Chrome maximized by default.

• Firefox/Firefox (headless): start Firefox at a default page.

• Start browsers in private mode in Katalon Studio.

• Set up remote server in desired capabilities in Katalon Studio.

• Using the acceptInsecureCerts capability to bypass, or implicitly trust, TLS certificates that the certificate service in the browser does not trust.

• Using the autoGrantPermissions to automatically determine which permissions your app requires and grant them to the app.

• Using the autoAcceptAlerts to automatically accept all alerts if they pop up.

• Set landscape orientation.

This document shows you how to set desired capabilities when executing tests on TestOps with TestCloud environment. If this is your first time executing tests with TestCloud environments on TestOps, refer to this documentation beforehand: Schedule test runs on TestOps with TestCloud environment.

Set desired capabilities for TestCloud environments

This section shows you how to set desired capabilities for TestCloud environments.

Note:

With the exception of TestCloud execution in Linux environments (browsers on Linux), you need to specify desired capabilities in Settings > Desired Capabilities > Web UI.

1. In Katalon Studio, open your Katalon project.
   1. For Linux execution environments, .e.g, Chrome on Linux, go to Project Settings > Desired Capabilities > WebUI and select a browser type, for example Chrome.
      
   2. For desktop browsers on macOS, Windows, mobile browsers, and mobile native applications: Go to Project Settings > Desired Capabilities > Remote.
      
2. Input the desired capabilities. Learn more about desired capabilities in Katalon Studio here: Introduction to Desired Capabilities in Katalon Studio.
3. Save your configurations.
4. Open and execute your project with TestCloud environment on Katalon TestOps.

Your tests are executed with the desired capabilities that you configured in Katalon Studio.