⚠️ DEPRECATION WARNING: This service got deprecated and is no longer maintained. If you use WebdriverIO v8.14 or higher. We recommend to remove the service as dependency and from your WebdriverIO configuration as it is no longer needed. For more information, please read this blog post.

WDIO GeckoDriver Service

This service helps you to run GeckoDriver seamlessly when running tests with the WDIO testrunner. This service does not require a Selenium server, but uses the geckodriver NPM package that wraps the GeckoDriver for you or uses a global installed binary.

Example capabilities:

capabilities: [{
    browserName: 'firefox'
}]

Installation

npm install wdio-geckodriver-service --save-dev

Configuration

By design, only Firefox is available (when installed on the host system). In order to use the service you need to add geckodriver to your service array:

// wdio.conf.js
export.config = {
    // MANDATORY: Add geckodriver to service array.
    // Default: empty array
    services: [
        [
            'geckodriver',
            // service options
            {
                // The path where the output of the Geckodriver server should
                // be stored (uses the config.outputDir by default when not set).
                outputDir: './logs',

                // pass in custom options for Geckodriver, for more information see
                // https://github.com/webdriverio-community/node-geckodriver#options
                geckodriverOptions: {
                    log: 'debug' // set log level of driver
                }
            }
        ]
    ],
};

Options

outputDir

The path where the output of the Safaridriver server should be stored (uses the config.outputDir by default when not set).

Type: string

logFileName

The name of the log file to be written in outputDir. Requires outputDir to be set in WebdriverIO config or as service option.

Type: string
Default: wdio-geckodriver-service-<cid>.log

geckodriverOptions

Options that are passed into Geckodriver. See driver docs for more information.

Type: GeckodriverParameters
Default: {}

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