WebdriverIO & Selenium Test Harness

Why

This test harness allows you to setup bootstrap your feature/intergration tests with WebdriverIO and Selenium. It makes setup and teardown trivial, especially for starting and stopping a local selenium server.

Installation

First you want to install the peerDependencies and then the package itself.

npm i -D webdriverio
npm i -D selenium-standalone
npm i -D webdriverio-selenium-harness

Usage

You can use the test harness in your test framework of choice.
Just require the module and call setup and teardown in your before and after hooks.

Example

// Mocha

var harness = require('webdriverio-selenium-harness')
var options = {}

describe('Feature', function () {
  before(function () {
    var self = this
    self.harnessState = harness.setup(options)
    return harnessState.then(function (state) {
      self.browser = state.browser
    })
  })
  
  after(function () {
    var self = this
    return self.harnessState.then(harness.teardown)
  })
  
  // Tests ...
})

Caveats

• Make sure you have your Browsers or PhantomJS installed.
• Install Selenium by running ./node_modules/.bin/selenium-standalone install.
  Reference: https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-standalone
• Make sure if your tests ever crash that, teardown always run. Otherwise you may have processes left on.

API

Setup

setup takes an object of options for both webdriverio and selenium.
setup returns a Promise of harness state which contains the webdriverio client and the selenium process.

Options are namespaced by webdriverio and selenium.
Each of the options will reflect the APIs provided in these documents.

References

WebdriverIO

init
remote

Selenium

selenium

Custom

• remoteSelenium
  Use if you want to the test harness to point to a remote selenium server.

Examples

Traditional

An example of how to use on your local.

var options = {
  custom: {},
  selenium: {
    seleniumArgs: []
  },
  webdriverio: {
    init: {},
    remote: {
      desiredCapabilities: {
        browserName: 'phantomjs' // chrome, firefox
      }
    }
  },
}

harness.setup(options).then(function (state) {
  var browser = state.browser
  var selenium = state.selenium
})

Continuous Integration

An example of how to use in CI.

Note
The Selenium instance in the harness state is a stub process when using remoteSelenium.
Make sure you have a Selenium server running when using remoteSelenium custom option.

var isCI = !!process.env.CI

var options = {
  custom: { remoteSelenium: isCI },
  selenium: {
    seleniumArgs: []
  },
  webdriverio: {
    init: {},
    remote: {
      desiredCapabilities: {
        browserName: 'phantomjs' // chrome, firefox
      }
    }
  },
}

harness.setup(options).then(function (state) {
  var browser = state.browser
  var selenium = state.selenium // stub process - not real.
})

Teardown

teardown takes harness state and then closes the webdriverio client and selenium process.
teardown will return a Promise of undefined.

Example

harness.teardown(state).then(function () {
  // etc
})

Peer Dependencies

• webdriveio
• selenium-standalone