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']
        }]
    ],
    // ...
}