winappdriver Service

wdio-winappdriver-service is a 3rd party package, for more information please see GitHub | npm

This service helps you to run the WinAppDriver server seamlessly when running tests with the WDIO testrunner. It starts the WinAppDriver in a child process.

Installation#

npm install wdio-winappdriver-service --save-dev

Instructions on how to install WebdriverIO can be found here.

Configuration#

In order to use the service you need to add winappdriver to your service array:

// wdio.conf.js
export.config = {
    // ...
    services: ['winappdriver'],
    // ...
};

Options#

The following options can be added to the wdio.conf.js file. To define options for the service you need to add the service to the services list in the following way:

// wdio.conf.js
export.config = {
    // ...
    services: [
        ['winappdriver', {
            // WinAppDriver service options here
            // ...
        }]
    ],
    // ...
};

logPath#

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

Type: String

Example:

export.config = {
    // ...
    services: [
        ['winappdriver', {
            logPath : './'
        }]
    ],
    // ...
}

command#

To use your own installation of WinAppDriver, e.g. globally installed, specify the command which should be started.

Type: String

Example:

export.config = {
    // ...
    services: [
        ['winappdriver', {
            command : 'c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Application Driver\\WinAppDriver.exe'
        }]
    ],
    // ...
}

args#

List of arguments passed directly to WinAppDriver.

See the documentation for possible arguments.

Type: Array

Default: []

Example:

export.config = {
    // ...
    services: [
        ['winappdriver', {
            args: ['10.0.0.10', '4723/wd/hub']
        }]
    ],
    // ...
}