Spectron launches 10 windows; hangs and fails with Client initialization failed after 10 attempts

Question

Electron v1.8.2 Spectron v3.8.0

Adding spectron tests, but even an extremely basic test fails.

Attempting to run:

const { Application } = require('spectron');

const app = new Application({
  path: './dist/mac/ddev-ui.app/Contents/MacOS/ddev-ui',
});

app.start().then((myApp) => {
  console.log(myApp);
  console.log('Started');
});

Launches 10 instances of my application very quickly and fails out with message:

Client initialization failed after 10 attempts

I've tried downgrading to electron 1.7.9 with spectron 3.7.3 with the same results.

Strangely, setting connectionRetryTimeout to 3000000 does nothing. All app instances start one after each other immediately.

Can you share your test file here.So,that it will be helpful for analysis — Bharath Kumar S, Jul 06 '18 at 14:24
I have faced the same problem. It's only happen on Windows 10. — Buaban, Nov 08 '18 at 08:47
still happening to me on OSX `electron 6.0.9` and `spectron 8.0.0` — Felipe, Oct 07 '19 at 19:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '19 at 14:00

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In my case this problem was caused by using electron 6.x with spectron 9.x> Switching to spectron 8.x fixed the problem.

Each version of electron should be used with a matching version of Spectron as described in the Spectron documentation here

answered Oct 27 '19 at 14:00

Giorgio

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Spectron launches 10 windows; hangs and fails with Client initialization failed after 10 attempts

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