#Selenium WebdriverIO Boilerplate with Mocha + Chai + Sinon Selenium + Node + webdriverio + phantomjs + mocha + chai + sinon
We are using Webdriverio's TestRunner, that comes with phantomjs, on top of Selenium to run all of our tests in mocha. I also included sinon so we can use it for unit testing within mocha.
Author: Michael Guild from http://threde.com
node ( Version 6^ ) https://nodejs.org
selenium-standalone https://github.com/vvo/selenium-standalone
webdriverio https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio/
Mocha https://mochajs.org/
Chai https://chaijs.com ( test are written in Chai with es6 )
Sinon https://sinonjs.org ( generates random units for testing )
npm install
###Note: this installation requires Node 6^ , NPM 3^ , & Java 1.8^
if you get an cant connect to selenium, it might be due to vagrant or another virtual machine.
run node run kill-selenium to kill all machines running on port 4444.
To run tests, simply run npm test.
note: npm test, runs all test within the test directory.
To kill/stop all selenium instances use: npm run kill-selenium.
use npm run help to see webdriverio's testrunner commands.
Also, when the selenium-standalone server starts, it' running on port 4444
while developing note that Class browser.whatever() uses all the methods here: http://webdriver.io/api.html
For configuration changes, please read & refer to the wdio.config.js file. All the information on how to configure this can be found on webdriverio http://webdriver.io/guide/testrunner/configurationfile.html
The global scope for all tests is located in the before method inside of the wdio.config.js file.
So, if you have any vars you want to declare for all your test to have access, you can put them there.
before: function (capabilities, specs) { ... }