[Appium WebdriverIO][CucumberJS] - Is it possible to run the WebdriverIO using "npx cucumber-js" ?

[tamaniniandre]

Hello everyone!

Well, I'm testing an APP built in Node.js, and I was having some blockers due to the XCUitest not showing all the elements in the App Source tree

More context:
https://discuss.appium.io/t/error-in-appium-desktop-refreshing-source-after-adding-snapshotmaxdepth-greater-than-62/34058
https://discuss.appium.io/t/we-are-experiencing-max-deep-layer-problem/40399
appium/appium#19156

So I decided to build a hybrid mobile automation with WebDriverIO and Detox (since the login flow only WebDriverIO/Appium can handle due to being a third party service).

I'm using cucumber.js to run the tests, and I would like to check the possibility to run both frameworks using the npx cucumber-js command. Is there some documentation that I can follow to do that?

For now, they run separately, basically the Appium is creating a new user and doing the login, then Detox does the rest, and I'm using the no-reset plan to get the authenticated session.

Accept new ideas.

Thanks so much,
André Tamanini

[christian-bromann]

Hey @tamaniniandre you can always spin up a WebdriverIO session in standalone mode but this will require you to set up Appium yourself as you can't use the Appium service outside of the test runner.

[tamaniniandre]

got it, thanks so much!

[tamaniniandre]

hey @christian-bromann ,

by the way, do you have please an example for capabilities for Appium as example?
I'm trying this:

{ platformName: 'iOS', maxInstances: 1, 'appium:deviceName': 'iPhone 13 Pro', 'appium:platformVersion': '15.5', 'appium:orientation': 'PORTRAIT', 'appium:automationName': 'XCUITest', 'appium:app':${process.cwd()}/app/ios/tyb.app, 'appium:noReset': false, 'appium:newCommandTimeout': 60000, 'appium:settings[snapshotMaxDepth]': 60, 'appium:settings[customSnapshotTimeout]': 600, }, ];

but I'm getting the following error:

If you like to run a local browser session make sure to pick from one of the following browser names: chrome,googlechrome,chromium,chromium-browser,firefox,ff,mozilla,mozilla firefox,edge,microsoftedge,msedge,safari,safari technology preview at Runtime.runTestRunHooks (/Users/ubimnids/workspace/tyb-qa/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/runtime/run_test_run_hooks.ts:32:19) at async Runtime.start (/Users/ubimnids/workspace/tyb-qa/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/runtime/index.ts:103:5) at async runCucumber (/Users/ubimnids/workspace/tyb-qa/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/api/run_cucumber.ts:125:19) at async Cli.run (/Users/ubimnids/workspace/tyb-qa/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/cli/index.ts:79:25) at async Object.run [as default] (/Users/ubimnids/workspace/tyb-qa/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/cli/run.ts:33:14) caused by: Error: No "browserName" defined in capabilities nor hostname or port found! If you like to run a local browser session make sure to pick from one of the following browser names: chrome,googlechrome,chromium,chromium-browser,firefox,ff,mozilla,mozilla firefox,edge,microsoftedge,msedge,safari,safari technology preview