Mobile web emulation launcher

The mobile web emulation launcher is a command line tool that allows users to quickly capture web element(s) on a website which will render in a mobile device, without requiring a device.

Setup prerequisites

• Ensure Chrome browser is installed in a recognized location.
• Download the ChromeDriver binary for your platform and place it under the following directory {TA_DATA_DIR}\Automation\webdriver_server for example: C:\Users\Public\LogiGear\TestArchitect\Automation\webdriver_server .
• Attention:
  Your ChromeDriver binary version should be compatible with the installed Chrome browser’s version.

Download and extract the launcher

• Download here

Configuration

• The launcher is pre-configured with default location when installing TestArchitect. If you install TestArchitect in custom location, you have to re-configure the launcher with following steps

  1. Manually open launcher.bat with a text editor
  2. Update {TA_INSTALL_DIR} with your TestArchitect installed directory
  3. Update {TA_DATA_DIR} with your TestArchitect data directory

Usage

• Close all opening Chrome browser instance(s)
• Open CMD from the downloaded launcher folder to execute launcher.bat file
• The launcher will launch a web mobile emulator and you can start using Interface Viewer to capture web element(s) of your website on it.
• Attention:
  The launcher uses the network port 9222 internally. Please ensure that network port is available before using the launcher.
• Tip: 
  If your machine has installed PowerShell, you can check the process which uses the 9222 port with command

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 9222).OwningProcess

Syntax

.\launcher.bat "<device name>" "<url>"

Arguments

• Notes: 
  See section Standard emulated device list for list of emulated device name supported by current Chrome browser version (107.0.5304.88). The list of available device name may be different on different versions of Chrome browser.

• Tip: 
  If you use Chrome browser version other than 107.0.5304.88, you can see the list of available device from your installed Chrome browser by performing below steps:
  • Open Chrome browser, press F12 to open Chrome’s DevTools
  • Press Shift + ? to open DevTools’s Settings
  • Select Devices tab on Settings column

Stop the launcher

• Tip: 
  You can manually type Ctrl + C on the opening CMD console to stop the launcher

Sub-commands

When the CMD console of the launcher is opening, you can continuously enter sub-command on the console to perform below browser-related functions

• Navigate to the a url. Example: to https://demo.testarchitect.com

  to <url>
  

• Refresh the current page

  refresh
  

• Go back to previous page

  back
  

• Forward to next page

  forward
  

Standard emulated deivce list

iPhone SE

iPhone XR

iPhone 12 Pro

Pixel 3 XL

Pixel 5

Samsung Galaxy S8+

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra

iPad Air

iPad Mini

Surface Pro 7

Surface Duo

Galaxy Fold

Nest Hub Max

Nest Hub

iPhone 4

iPhone 5/SE

iPhone 6/7/8

iPhone 6/7/8 Plus

iPhone X

BlackBerry Z30

Nexus 4

Nexus 5

Nexus 5X

Nexus 6

Nexus 6P

Pixel 2

Pixel 2 XL

Pixel 3

Pixel 4

LG Optimus L70

Nokia N9

Nokia Lumia 520

Microsoft Lumia 550

Microsoft Lumia 950

Galaxy S III

Galaxy S5

Galaxy S8

Galaxy S9+

Galaxy Tab S4

JioPhone 2

Kindle Fire HDX

iPad

iPad Pro

Blackberry PlayBook

Nexus 10

Nexus 7

Galaxy Note 3

Galaxy Note II

Moto G4