Configuration File

The configuration file contains all necessary information to run your test suite. It is a node module that exports a JSON. Here is an example configuration with all supported properties and additional information:

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exports.config = {

// =====================
// Server Configurations
// =====================
// Host address of the running Selenium server. This information is usually obsolete as
// WebdriverIO automatically connects to localhost. Also if you are using one of the
// supported cloud services like Sauce Labs, Browserstack or Testing Bot you also don't
// need to define host and port information because WebdriverIO can figure that out
// according to your user and key information. However if you are using a private Selenium
// backend you should define the host address, port, and path here.
//
host: '0.0.0.0',
port: 4444,
path: '/wd/hub',
//
// =================
// Service Providers
// =================
// WebdriverIO supports Sauce Labs, Browserstack and Testing Bot (other cloud providers
// should work too though). These services define specific user and key (or access key)
// values you need to put in here in order to connect to these services.
//
user: 'webdriverio',
key: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxx',
//
// ==================
// Specify Test Files
// ==================
// Define which test specs should run. The pattern is relative to the directory
// from which `wdio` was called. Notice that, if you are calling `wdio` from an
// NPM script (see https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/run-script) then the current working
// directory is where your package.json resides, so `wdio` will be called from there.
//
specs: [
'test/spec/**'
],
// Patterns to exclude.
exclude: [
'test/spec/multibrowser/**',
'test/spec/mobile/**'
],
//
// ============
// Capabilities
// ============
// Define your capabilities here. WebdriverIO can run multiple capabilities at the same
// time. Depending on the number of capabilities, WebdriverIO launches several test
// sessions. Within your capabilities you can overwrite the spec and exclude option in
// order to group specific specs to a specific capability.
//
//
// First you can define how many instances should be started at the same time. Let's
// say you have 3 different capabilities (Chrome, Firefox and Safari) and you have
// set maxInstances to 1, wdio will spawn 3 processes. Therefor if you have 10 spec
// files and you set maxInstances to 10, all spec files will get tested at the same time
// and 30 processes will get spawned. The property basically handles how many capabilities
// from the same test should run tests.
//
//
maxInstances: 10,
//
// If you have trouble getting all important capabilities together, check out the
// Sauce Labs platform configurator - a great tool to configure your capabilities:
// https://docs.saucelabs.com/reference/platforms-configurator
//
capabilities: [{
browserName: 'chrome',
chromeOptions: {
// to run chrome headless the following flags are required
// (see https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome)
// args: ['--headless', '--disable-gpu'],
}
}, {
// maxInstances can get overwritten per capability. So if you have an in house Selenium
// grid with only 5 firefox instance available you can make sure that not more than
// 5 instance gets started at a time.
maxInstances: 5,
browserName: 'firefox',
specs: [
'test/ffOnly/*'
],
"moz:firefoxOptions": {
// flag to activate Firefox headless mode (see https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/blob/master/README.md#firefox-capabilities for more details about moz:firefoxOptions)
// args: ['-headless']
}
},{
browserName: 'phantomjs',
exclude: [
'test/spec/alert.js'
]
}],
//
// When enabled opens a debug port for node-inspector and pauses execution
// on `debugger` statements. The node-inspector can be attached with:
// `node-inspector --debug-port 5859 --no-preload`
// When debugging it is also recommended to change the timeout interval of
// test runner (eg. jasmineNodeOpts.defaultTimeoutInterval) to a very high
// value and setting maxInstances to 1.
debug: false,
//
// Additional list node arguments to use when starting child processes
execArgv: null,
//
//
// ===================
// Test Configurations
// ===================
// Define all options that are relevant for the WebdriverIO instance here
//
// Per default WebdriverIO commands getting executed in a synchronous way using
// the wdio-sync package. If you still want to run your tests in an async way
// using promises you can set the sync command to false.
sync: true,
//
// Level of logging verbosity: silent | verbose | command | data | result | error
logLevel: 'silent',
//
// Enables colors for log output.
coloredLogs: true,
//
// Warns when a deprecated command is used
deprecationWarnings: true,
//
// If you only want to run your tests until a specific amount of tests have failed use
// bail (default is 0 - don't bail, run all tests).
bail: 0,
//
// Saves a screenshot to a given path if a command fails.
screenshotPath: 'shots',
//
// Set a base URL in order to shorten url command calls. If your `url` parameter starts
// with `/`, the base url gets prepended, not including the path portion of your baseUrl.
// If your `url` parameter starts without a scheme or `/` (like `some/path`), the base url
// gets prepended directly.
baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080',
//
// Default timeout for all waitForXXX commands.
waitforTimeout: 1000,
//
// Initialize the browser instance with a WebdriverIO plugin. The object should have the
// plugin name as key and the desired plugin options as property. Make sure you have
// the plugin installed before running any tests. The following plugins are currently
// available:
// WebdriverCSS: https://github.com/webdriverio/webdrivercss
// WebdriverRTC: https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverrtc
// Browserevent: https://github.com/webdriverio/browserevent
plugins: {
webdrivercss: {
screenshotRoot: 'my-shots',
failedComparisonsRoot: 'diffs',
misMatchTolerance: 0.05,
screenWidth: [320,480,640,1024]
},
webdriverrtc: {},
browserevent: {}
},
//
// Framework you want to run your specs with.
// The following are supported: mocha, jasmine and cucumber
// see also: http://webdriver.io/guide/testrunner/frameworks.html
//
// Make sure you have the wdio adapter package for the specific framework installed before running any tests.
framework: 'mocha',
//
// Test reporter for stdout.
// The only one supported by default is 'dot'
// see also: http://webdriver.io/guide.html and click on "Reporters" in left column
reporters: ['dot', 'allure'],
//
// Some reporter require additional information which should get defined here
reporterOptions: {
//
// If you are using the "xunit" reporter you should define the directory where
// WebdriverIO should save all unit reports.
outputDir: './'
},
//
// Options to be passed to Mocha.
// See the full list at http://mochajs.org/
mochaOpts: {
ui: 'bdd'
},
//
// Options to be passed to Jasmine.
// See also: https://github.com/webdriverio/wdio-jasmine-framework#jasminenodeopts-options
jasmineNodeOpts: {
//
// Jasmine default timeout
defaultTimeoutInterval: 5000,
//
// The Jasmine framework allows it to intercept each assertion in order to log the state of the application
// or website depending on the result. For example it is pretty handy to take a screenshot every time
// an assertion fails.
expectationResultHandler: function(passed, assertion) {
// do something
},
//
// Make use of Jasmine-specific grep functionality
grep: null,
invertGrep: null
},
//
// If you are using Cucumber you need to specify where your step definitions are located.
// See also: https://github.com/webdriverio/wdio-cucumber-framework#cucumberopts-options
cucumberOpts: {
require: [], // <string[]> (file/dir) require files before executing features
backtrace: false, // <boolean> show full backtrace for errors
compiler: [], // <string[]> ("extension:module") require files with the given EXTENSION after requiring MODULE (repeatable)
dryRun: false, // <boolean> invoke formatters without executing steps
failFast: false, // <boolean> abort the run on first failure
format: ['pretty'], // <string[]> (type[:path]) specify the output format, optionally supply PATH to redirect formatter output (repeatable)
colors: true, // <boolean> disable colors in formatter output
snippets: true, // <boolean> hide step definition snippets for pending steps
source: true, // <boolean> hide source URIs
profile: [], // <string[]> (name) specify the profile to use
strict: false, // <boolean> fail if there are any undefined or pending steps
tags: [], // <string[]> (expression) only execute the features or scenarios with tags matching the expression
timeout: 20000, // <number> timeout for step definitions
ignoreUndefinedDefinitions: false, // <boolean> Enable this config to treat undefined definitions as warnings.
},
//
// =====
// Hooks
// =====
// WebdriverIO provides a several hooks you can use to interfere the test process in order to enhance
// it and build services around it. You can either apply a single function to it or an array of
// methods. If one of them returns with a promise, WebdriverIO will wait until that promise got
// resolved to continue.
//

/**
* Gets executed once before all workers get launched.
* @param {Object} config wdio configuration object
* @param {Array.<Object>} capabilities list of capabilities details
*/
onPrepare: function (config, capabilities) {
},
/**
* Gets executed just before initialising the webdriver session and test framework. It allows you
* to manipulate configurations depending on the capability or spec.
* @param {Object} config wdio configuration object
* @param {Array.<Object>} capabilities list of capabilities details
* @param {Array.<String>} specs List of spec file paths that are to be run
*/
beforeSession: function (config, capabilities, specs) {
},
/**
* Gets executed before test execution begins. At this point you can access to all global
* variables like `browser`. It is the perfect place to define custom commands.
* @param {Array.<Object>} capabilities list of capabilities details
* @param {Array.<String>} specs List of spec file paths that are to be run
*/
before: function (capabilities, specs) {
},
/**
* Hook that gets executed before the suite starts
* @param {Object} suite suite details
*/
beforeSuite: function (suite) {
},
/**
* Hook that gets executed _before_ a hook within the suite starts (e.g. runs before calling
* beforeEach in Mocha)
*/
beforeHook: function () {
},
/**
* Hook that gets executed _after_ a hook within the suite ends (e.g. runs after calling
* afterEach in Mocha)
*/
afterHook: function () {
},
/**
* Function to be executed before a test (in Mocha/Jasmine) or a step (in Cucumber) starts.
* @param {Object} test test details
*/
beforeTest: function (test) {
},
/**
* Runs before a WebdriverIO command gets executed.
* @param {String} commandName hook command name
* @param {Array} args arguments that command would receive
*/
beforeCommand: function (commandName, args) {
},
/**
* Runs after a WebdriverIO command gets executed
* @param {String} commandName hook command name
* @param {Array} args arguments that command would receive
* @param {Number} result 0 - command success, 1 - command error
* @param {Object} error error object if any
*/
afterCommand: function (commandName, args, result, error) {
},
/**
* Function to be executed after a test (in Mocha/Jasmine) or a step (in Cucumber) ends.
* @param {Object} test test details
*/
afterTest: function (test) {
},
/**
* Hook that gets executed after the suite has ended
* @param {Object} suite suite details
*/
afterSuite: function (suite) {
},
/**
* Gets executed after all tests are done. You still have access to all global variables from
* the test.
* @param {Number} result 0 - test pass, 1 - test fail
* @param {Array.<Object>} capabilities list of capabilities details
* @param {Array.<String>} specs List of spec file paths that ran
*/
after: function (result, capabilities, specs) {
},
/**
* Gets executed right after terminating the webdriver session.
* @param {Object} config wdio configuration object
* @param {Array.<Object>} capabilities list of capabilities details
* @param {Array.<String>} specs List of spec file paths that ran
*/
afterSession: function (config, capabilities, specs) {
},
/**
* Gets executed after all workers got shut down and the process is about to exit.
* @param {Object} exitCode 0 - success, 1 - fail
* @param {Object} config wdio configuration object
* @param {Array.<Object>} capabilities list of capabilities details
*/
onComplete: function (exitCode, config, capabilities) {
},
//
// Cucumber specific hooks
beforeFeature: function (feature) {
},
beforeScenario: function (scenario) {
},
beforeStep: function (step) {
},
afterStep: function (stepResult) {
},
afterScenario: function (scenario) {
},
afterFeature: function (feature) {
}
};

You can also find that file with all possible options and variations in the example folder.