Using ChromeDriver with WebDriverIO without Selenium

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I want to drive my webdriverio tests with ChromeDriver, without going by Selenium. That should be possible, it seems, but I am not sure where to start.

I have tried starting up ChromeDriver like this

chromedriver

and then in another Window I have started up the wdio testrunner like this:

$(npm bin)/wdio

If doing nothing this will just get me

ERROR: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4444

Changing the port in the wdio.conf.js to match the ChromeDriver's port 9515 gets me

ERROR: unknown command: wd/hub/session

I have tried adding --url-base=wd/hub/session to the chromedriver startup options, but it just changes the error to

ERROR: unhandled request

Still, no go. I have set the services property for wdio to ['chromedriver'] - but it does not seem to take effect.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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It turns out that I failed to follow one vital bit of information:

path: '/'

From the docs

path

Path to WebDriver server.

Type: String

Default: /wd/hub

This is the address the Chromedriver is listening to.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jun 23 '17 at 18:06

oligofren

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '17 at 16:45

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Try to use wdio-chromedriver-service. It was developed to be able to run Chromedriver without Selenium server.

Link to npm registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wdio-chromedriver-service.

answered Jun 23 '17 at 16:45

Andrii

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that's what I am using. note the `services: ['chromedriver']` bit. – oligofren Jun 23 '17 at 17:59
Sorry, didn't notice that. – Andrii Jun 23 '17 at 20:34

Using ChromeDriver with WebDriverIO without Selenium

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