Resources

There are many wonderful curated resources the WebdriverIO community has put together. Make sure to contribute yours at awesome-webdriverio!

• WebdriverIO Ecosystem
  • Support WebdriverIO
  • Documentation
  • Community
  • Twitter
• Plugins
  • Services
  • Reporters
  • Miscellaneous
• Research & Training
  • Articles
  • Videos
  • Conference/Meetup Talks/Webinars
  • Courses
  • Books
  • WebdriverIO Examples

WebdriverIO Ecosystem

Support WebdriverIO

The following references give you more information on how to financially support the project.

• WebdriverIO Open Collective - Help support the teams ongoing development efforts.
• Sponsor Documentation
• GitHub Sponsor Page
• Tidelift Sponsor Page

Documentation

• WebdriverIO 4.x - WebdriverIO 4.x Documentation.
• WebdriverIO 5.x - WebdriverIO 5.x Documentation.
• WebdriverIO 6.x - WebdriverIO 6.x Documentation.
• WebdriverIO 7.x - WebdriverIO 7.x Documentation.
• WebdriverIO 8.x - WebdriverIO 8.x Documentation.

Community

• Discord Server
• #webdriverio in Selenium Slack
• Stack Overflow

Twitter

People passionate about WebdriverIO (In no particular order)

• Christian Bromann - Staff Software Engineer at the Open Source Program Office at Sauce Labs.
• Kevin Lamping - Senior Front End Engineer.
• Wim Selles - Senior Solutions Architect at Sauce Labs.

Plugins

Services

• WebdriverIO Community Services - A set of community maintained services.
• Wdi5 - Cross-platform test framework for hybrid UI5 apps. wdi5 = Webdriver.IO + UI5 Test API + appium.
• ChromeDriver - Run Chrome browser seamlessly when running tests.
• SafariDriver - Run Safari browser seamlessly when running tests.
• GeckoDriver - Run Gecko browser seamlessly when running tests.
• EdgeDriver - Run Microsoft Edge browser seamlessly when running tests.
• Gmail - Fetch e-mails from Google Mail.
• Intercept - Capture and assert HTTP ajax calls.
• Zafira Listener - Report tests to Zafira Dashboard.
• Report Portal - Service used by Report Portal Reporter.
• Docker - Helps run functional/integration tests against/using containerized applications.
• WireMock - Run WireMock seamlessly when running tests.
• Slack - Send test results as a slack notification/message to channels.
• LambdaTest - Manage tunnel and job metadata for LambdaTest users.
• Image Comparison (Visual Regression Testing) - Image comparison and visual regression testing.
• Ng-apimock - Service used by @ng-apimock/core.
• Novus Visual Regression - Visual regression testing.
• Re-run - Tracks failing tests and scenarios, allowing failing or unstable tests or scenarios to be re-run.
• winappdriver - Run WinAppDriver server seamlessly when running tests.
• ywinappdriver - Run ywinappdriver server seamlessly when running tests.
• PerformanceTotal - Analyze performance of test automated flows.
• CleanupTotal - Proper cleanup after each test made easy.
• AWS Device Farm - AWS Device Farm service.
• OCR service for Appium Native Apps - Run Tesseract OCR for Appium Native App tests.
• Auto-detect missing imports w/eslint - Automatically run eslint checks prior to executing tests.

Reporters

• WebdriverIO Community Reporters - A set of community maintained reporters.
• Report Portal - Report results to Report Portal.
• Video - Makes videos of failed tests and has optional allure integration.
• HTML - Generates a nice HTML report.
• JSON - Report results in JSON format.
• Mochawesome - Report results in Mochawesome format.
• Timeline - Report results in an aggregated visualisation interface.
• CucumberJS - Report results in CucumberJS JSON format.
• Markdown - Report results in Markdown format.
• Delta Reporter - Report results in Delta Reporter format.
• Teamcity - Report results to the build results page of Teamcity Portal.

Miscellaneous

• wdio-wait-for - A lightweight library of useful expected conditions for the WebdriverIO framework.
• @wdio/schematics - A schematic to add WebdriverIO to an Angular project.
• @badisi/wdio-harness - WebdriverIO support for Angular component test harnesses.
• @rbnx/webdriverio - Nx plugin that adds WebdriverIO support to a Nx workspace.
• @rahularanger/WTicks - A tool for exporting Selenium .side files into a WebdriverIO script.

Research & Training

Articles

• Ross Addinall | 20-Apr-21 - Cypress vs WebDriverIO.

Videos

• UI Automation with WebdriverIO - By Julia Pottinger.
• Automated Software Testing with WebdriverIO - By Kaniel Outis.
• WebdriverIO - Tutorial for beginners - By Automation Bro.
• Learn WebdriverIO Course - By Kevin Lamping.
• WebDriverIO - JavaScript Tool - By Naveen AutomationLabs.
• WebdriverIO : NETWORK LOGS - By Seventeenth Sep.
• WebdriverIO with TypeScript and BDD Framework - By TestAutomationHub.

Conference/Meetup Talks/Webinars

• Electron Testing with WebdriverIO - By Christian Bromann.
• My favourite features of WebdriverIO - By Julia Pottinger.
• The Nuts and Bolts of WebdriverIO - By Christian Bromann.
• Using WebdriverIO with Data Provider - By Kumar Vikram.
• Scale Your Automated Testing with BrowserStack and WebdriverIO - By Kevin Lamping.
• WebdriverIO - Bootstrap your test suite in mins - By Shweta Varma.

Courses

• Web App Testing with WebdriverIO - By Kevin Lamping.

Books

• Enhanced Test Automation with WebdriverIO: Unlock the superpowers of hybrid testing frameworks - Elevate your testing game to the next level using advanced techniques and proven strategies with this book for WebdriverIO beginners and automation pros alike.
• The Web App Testing Guidebook - Covers everything you need to know to get off the ground with UI testing. Examples are built using real-world scenarios, showing how you would actually write your tests. It's a step-by-step guide on how to effectively write UI test automation for the real world.
• Practical WebDriverIO - Teaches you intermediate and advanced methods for using WebDriverIO APIs.

WebdriverIO Examples

• Boilerplate Projects - Over time, our community has developed several projects that you can use as inspiration to set up your own test suite.

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