Debugging WebdriverIO Tests in VSCode

Important for TypeScript users... at the end of the video I show a sample launch.json config, but forgot to mention that you need to be sure you have `"sourceMap": true` in your tsconfig.json as well, otherwise it won't work...
In this WebdriverIO Automated Testing Tutorial, we will be learning how to use the VSCode debugger to more easily find issues in our tests. We'll be using the node debugger to pause and inspect our tests are we're running them.
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[@learngardeningwithme]

Do you have any Video debugging typescript and webdriverIO using VS code ?

[@jeffchen5862]

Hi Kevin, I am working on the worst-case as you said. wdio with cucumber with typescript, Could you please maybe give some sample about it?

[@oanhpham180]

Hi Kevin, can you make a video on testing native app on mobile using Kobiton cloud. Have you tried it? As I can see when using a cloud webdriverio will need a service, in the case of sauce lab, there is sauce-service. Is it possible to do testing with Kobiton? Thanks.

[@molakaseemanarasimha1800]

Hi Kevin,
can you please make video how to connect to mysql DB to do validations in webdriver io Scripts

[@frontendtesting]

will add it to my list of video ideas 👍🏻

[@ramsenc]

I'm getting "ERROR @wdio/cli:launcher: No specs found to run, exiting with failure using the same format". Is there a common reason why that would happen?

[@tyhendershot1095]

Hi Kevin,
My wdio.conf.js file isn't using 'mocha' as the framework, but is using 'jasmine', does this matter? When I run the debugger in VSC (breakpoint included) it debugs, but then resolved and exits debugging mode automatically.

[@frontendtesting]

that i don't know. Haven't used Jasmine so don't have any experience there :\

[@rushabhjaiswal1442]

Hi Kevin,
Could you please tell me how to run a single test and how to write configuration for that

[@frontendtesting]

you can use the `--spec` CLI argument, so:
npx wdio --spec=myFile
webdriver.io/docs/clioptions.html#wdio-run

[@rushabhjaiswal1442]

@@frontendtesting so myfile is our filename right?

[@frontendtesting]

@@rushabhjaiswal1442 Correct