WDIO WebDriver Service

(Based on wdio-selenium-standalone-service)

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This service helps you to run Chromedriver or Geckodriver seamlessly when running tests with the WDIO testrunner. It uses:

• geckodriver NPM package for runnings tests with Firefox.
• chromedriver NPM package for runnings tests with Chrome.

Note - this service does not require a Selenium server, but uses ChromeDriver or GeckoDriver to communicate with the browser directly. It supports:

capabilities: [{
        browserName: 'firefox'
    }]

and

capabilities: [{
        browserName: 'chrome'
    }]

Installation

The easiest way is to keep wdio-webdriver-service as a devDependency in your package.json.

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "wdio-webdriver-service": "~0.1"
  }
}

You can simple do it by:

npm install wdio-webdriver-service --save-dev

Instructions on how to install WebdriverIO can be found here.

Configuration

To use the service you need to add webdriver to your service array:

// wdio.conf.js
export.config = {
  port: '9515',
  path: '/',
  // ...
  services: ['webdriver'],
  // ...
  webDriverType: 'geckodriver',
  webDriverLogs: './',
  webDriverArgs: ['--silent'],
  webDriverKillProcess: false, // to kill webdriver (chromedriver or geckodriver) process after complete, default true
};

Options

webDriverLogs

Path where all logs from the WebDriver server should be stored.

Type: String

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webDriverType

Type of the driver component to use. Possible values: geckodriver, chromedriver

Type: String

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webDriverArgs

Arguments to run driver component binary with. Note that options for Gecko driver and Chrome driver are different.

More info:

• Gecko driver options:

  -b BINARY/--binary BINARY       Path to the Firefox binary to use.
  --connect-existing              Connecting to an existing Firefox instance. 
  --host HOST                     Host to use for the WebDriver server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
  --log LEVEL                     Set the Gecko and geckodriver log level.
  --marionette-port PORT          Port to use for connecting to the Marionette remote protocol.
  -p PORT/--port PORT             Port to use for the WebDriver server. Defaults to 4444.
  

• Chrome driver options:

  --port=PORT                     Port to listen on
  --adb-port=PORT                 Adb server port
  --verbose                       Log verbosely
  --version                       Print the version number and exit
  --silent                        Log nothing
  --url-base                      Base URL path prefix for commands, e.g. wd/url
  --port-server                   Address of server to contact for reserving a port
  --whitelisted-ips               Comma-separated whitelist of remote IPv4 addresses which are allowed to connect to ChromeDriver
  

Type: Array

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For more information on WebdriverIO see the homepage.

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TODO list

• add support for Gecko driver
• add support for Chrome driver
• add support for Edge driver
• add support for Safari driver