Chrome session not getting started on Windows 11 with latest WDI5.

[Vikrant87-lego]

Hi All,

I have tried creating a new project using the command - npm init wdi5@latest

after installation i tried running the sample tests but getting below mentioned error:

Execution of 1 workers started at 2023-11-08T13:06:42.441Z

[0-0] RUNNING in chrome - file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/webapp/test/e2e/sample.test.js
[0-0] 2023-11-08T13:06:46.019Z ERROR @wdio/runner: Error: spawn UNKNOWN
[0-0] at ChildProcess.spawn (node:internal/child_process:413:11)
[0-0] at Object.spawn (node:child_process:692:9)
[0-0] at startWebDriver (file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/node_modules/@wdio/utils/build/node/startWebDriver.js:57:28)
[0-0] at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[0-0] at async WebDriver.newSession (file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/node_modules/webdriver/build/index.js:18:31)
[0-0] at async remote (file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/node_modules/webdriverio/build/index.js:45:22)
[0-0] at async Runner._startSession (file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/node_modules/@wdio/runner/build/index.js:224:29)
[0-0] at async Runner._initSession (file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/node_modules/@wdio/runner/build/index.js:190:25)
[0-0] at async Runner.run (file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/node_modules/@wdio/runner/build/index.js:79:19)
[0-0] FAILED in chrome - file:///C:/Users/User1/Documents/Testing/Webdriverio/webapp/test/e2e/sample.test.js

Spec Files: 0 passed, 1 failed, 1 total (100% completed) in 00:00:03

OS: Windows 11(64 bit)
Node version: 18.6.0
Chrome version: 119.0.6045.106

package.json:
{
"devDependencies": {
"@wdio/cli": "^8.22.0",
"@wdio/local-runner": "^8.22.0",
"@wdio/mocha-framework": "^8.22.0",
"@wdio/spec-reporter": "^8.21.0",
"wdio-ui5-service": "^2.0.2"
},
"scripts": {
"wdi5": "wdio run ./webapp/test/e2e/wdio.conf.js"
}
}

can you please help me understand what's wrong?

[Siolto]

Have a look at the baseUrl in the generated wdio.conf.js file. It is probably something like http://localhost:8080/index.html. Is your application running under this url?

[Vikrant87-lego]

Yes, if i change the browser to firefox, it works. But in case of Chrome browser it does not create chrome browser session.

[vobu]

i'll close this in favor of #561 - also please use the Issues section for ...well... issues - this is the Discussions section where non-issues are ...well... discussed.