Help with WDIO Testrunner and Spectron

[electron-userland]

Help with WDIO Testrunner and Spectron

[anth0d]

Can we get a response on this issue @kevinsawicki ? It seems like Spectron was not designed for use with WDIO testrunner. I have had no success trying to use my existing WebdriverIO test framework with Spectron.

[karlulricsimon]

In addition to this, when I try to run a stand-alone test with mocha and chai, I get TypeError: Cannot read property 'isMinimized' of undefined. Would anyone know why this example from the documentation is failing or why browserWindow is undefined? I run the test by calling mocha test.js. Besides the different path to my electron app, the test file is copied and pasted.

[kevinsawicki]

In addition to this, when I try to run a stand-alone test with mocha and chai, I get TypeError: Cannot read property 'isMinimized' of undefined.

Does your electron app have node integration enabled?

[karlulricsimon]

Thanks for your response. I am generating the app using nativefier. Node integration is disabled on the app. Adding if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'test') { window.electronRequire = require } to preload.js doesn't seem to impact the tests. I was hoping to use nativefier to produce a desktop version of a webapp I'm working on without needing to maintain two separate projects. This route is less appealing if I cant use the same tests to verify that both web and desktop versions of the app are functioning in the same ways. Do you have any thoughts or recommendations on how I might be able to get this working?

[elvisvoer]

I had a similar issue and it took me a lot to work it out. In my test suite I was having:

beforeEach(function () {
    this.app = new Application({
      path: '/usr/local/bin/electron',
      args: [
        path.join(__dirname, '..')
      ],
    });
    return this.app.start();
  });

After I changed it to include the entry point script it worked:

beforeEach(function () {
    this.app = new Application({
      path: '/usr/local/bin/electron',
      args: [
        path.join(__dirname, '..', 'main.js')
      ],
    });
    return this.app.start();
  });

[rafalradomski]

Can we use browser WDIO in spectron?