Run the below command in your project location to make the ‘webdriverio’ library available in your project.
npm install webdriverio
Run the below command to configure wdio test runner.
./node_modules/webdriverio/bin/wdio config
A questioner will be displayed as below image. Answer the simple question to configure your project to run webdriverio tests.
Questions and sample answers:
Q: Where do you want to execute your tests?
A: On my local machine
Q: Which framework do you want to use?
A: jasmine
Q: Shall I install the framework adapter for you?
A: Yes (just press enter)
Q: Where are your test specs located?
A: ./test/specs/*/.js (just press enter)
Q: Which reporter do you want to use?
A: dot (just press space and enter)
Q: Shall I install the reporter library for you?
A: Yes (just press enter)
Q: Do you want to add a service to your test setup?
A: selenium-standalone – https://github.com/webdriverio/wdio-selenium-standalon
e-service (just press space and enter)
Q: Level of logging verbosity:
A: silent (just press enter)
Q: In which directory should screenshots gets saved if a command fails?
A: ./errorShots/ (just press enter)
Q: What is the base url?
A: http://google.com (just press enter)
Wait for the configurator to install required dependencies and observe that wdio.conf.js is displayed in your project folder.
Now, let’s create folder structure in the project.
$ mkdir -p ./test/specs
Project Structure will look like below:
