Cybernetic Enhancements – WebdriverIO Config and Debug Tips

In this chapter, we are going to cover the techniques for creating and debugging a custom WebdriverIO framework. This will take us through the services that help keep the project up to date. A lot of files get used and interact with each other in the project. Helpers and other features will be added to help enhance the framework as well as make debugging easier. We will cover the node files of the framework and demonstrate the differences between launching tests on Mac and Windows operating systems. We will also create our first hook customization for debugging on a single monitor. Lastly, we will write our first log wrapper to take more control over the output in the console window to improve debugging efficiency by customizing logging.

Specifically, these are our main topics for this chapter:

• Main files of WebdriverIO node project
• Letting Yarn help keep files up to date
• Dynamic configuration
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