5-debug.md

Debug & Pause

Links

• Setting Timeouts in Mocha Tests
• Setting Timeouts in WebdriverIO
• Pause Command
• The WebdriverIO Debug Command (video)
• Debugging
• REPL

Exercise (click item for solution)

Use `pause` to confirm that carousel rotates on homepage after four seconds (hint: use `getAttribute('class')` command)

// test/basic.js
it('should rotate the banner image after four seconds', function () {
    this.timeout(15000);

    browser.url('');

    var firstActiveImage = $('.orbit-container .is-active');

    browser.pause(4000);

    expect(firstActiveImage.getAttribute('class')).to.not.contain('.is-active');
})

use 'debug' to run commands from inside the test run

In test file:

    browser.debug();

When running wdio test command:

./node_modules/.bin/wdio --mochaOpts.timeout=999999

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