How do I get webdriverIO to use a specified chromedriver - selenium-chromedriver

Question

I need my webdriver tests use a specified chromedriver in a directory.
The problem is that when I run the tests it always uses a different chromedriver exe that was set as a default.
Command: "wdio run wdio.ci.conf.ts"
I get : "chromedriver: Starting ChromeDriver 97.0.4692.71"
ChromeDriver 97 is found in \node_modules\chromedriver\lib\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe
However in the wdio.ci.conf.ts file I set it to
services:[ ['chromedriver',{
chromeDriverCustomPath:"src\\main\\cucumber-webdriver-io\\node_modules\\webdriver-manager\\selenium\\chromedriver.exe"
}]],
At this location Im expecting it to pick an older version of chrome driver, 95.0.4638.69
I need it to run an older version as the corporate Jenkins environment has upgraded Chrome yet. In Jenkins I get the error:
WARN webdriver: Request failed with status 500 due to session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97
[INFO] [0-0] Current browser version is 95.0.4638.69 with binary path /usr/bin/google-chrome
Thanks for your help
wdio.ci.conf.ts (removed the comments to be more brief)
const report = require('multiple-cucumber-html-reporter');
export const config: WebdriverIO.Config = {
autoCompileOpts: {
autoCompile: true,
tsNodeOpts: {
transpileOnly: true,
project: 'tsconfig.json'
}
}
},
specs: [
'./features/**/*.feature'
],
exclude: [
// 'path/to/excluded/files'
],
maxInstances: 10,
capabilities: [{
maxInstances: 5,
//
browserName: 'chrome',
'goog:chromeOptions':{
args: [ '--disable-dev-shm-usage', '--headless', '--no-sandbox', '--ignore-certificate-errors', '--test-type','--auth-server-whitelist=*bp.com', '--window-size=1440,1024', '--start-maximized']
},
acceptInsecureCerts: true,
}],
logLevel: 'info',
bail: 0,
baseUrl: 'http://localhost',
waitforTimeout: 10000,
connectionRetryTimeout: 120000,
connectionRetryCount: 3,
services:[ ['chromedriver',{
chromeDriverCustomPath:"src\\main\\cucumber-webdriver-io\\node_modules\\webdriver-manager\\selenium\\chromedriver.exe"
}]],
framework: 'cucumber',
reporters: ['cucumberjs-json'],
cucumberOpts: {
// <string[]> (file/dir) require files before executing features
require: ['./features/step-definitions/*-steps.ts'],
// <boolean> show full backtrace for errors
backtrace: false,
// <string[]> ("extension:module") require files with the given EXTENSION after requiring MODULE (repeatable)
requireModule: [],
// <boolean> invoke formatters without executing steps
dryRun: false,
// <boolean> abort the run on first failure
failFast: false,
// <boolean> hide step definition snippets for pending steps
snippets: true,
// <boolean> hide source uris
source: true,
// <boolean> fail if there are any undefined or pending steps
strict: false,
// <string> (expression) only execute the features or scenarios with tags matching the expression
tagExpression: '',
// <number> timeout for step definitions
timeout: 60000,
// <boolean> Enable this config to treat undefined definitions as warnings.
ignoreUndefinedDefinitions: false
},
onComplete: function(exitCode, config, capabilities, results) {
report.generate({
jsonDir: '.tmp/json/',
reportPath: '.tmp/report/'
});
},
}
package.json
{
"name": "cucumber-webdriver-io",
"version": "1.0.0",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"wdio": "wdio run wdio.conf.ts",
"wdio-ci": "wdio run wdio.ci.conf.ts",
"postinstall": "rimraf -rm node_modules/wdio-html-nice-reporter/node_modules/#wdio/types"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"description": "",
"dependencies": {
"cucumber": "^7.0.0-rc.0",
"expect-webdriverio": "^3.1.4",
"multiple-cucumber-html-reporter": "^1.18.3"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#types/chai": "^4.3.0",
"#types/node": "^17.0.12",
"#types/webdriverio": "^5.0.0",
"#wdio/cli": "^7.16.13",
"#wdio/cucumber-framework": "^7.16.13",
"#wdio/local-runner": "^7.16.13",
"#wdio/spec-reporter": "^7.16.13",
"#wdio/types": "^7.16.13",
"chai": "^4.3.6",
"chromedriver": "^97.0.2",
"cucumber-html-reporter": "^5.5.0",
"fs-extra": "^10.0.0",
"ts-node": "^10.4.0",
"typescript": "^4.5.5",
"wdio-chromedriver-service": "^7.2.6",
"wdio-cucumberjs-json-reporter": "^4.2.0",
"webdriver-manager": "^12.1.8",
"webdriverio": "^7.16.13"
}
}

Answer 1

Missed spelled
chromeDriverCustomPath >> chromedriverCustomPath