How I can start IE in 32bit mode in webdriver.io

Question

I am running an WebDriver.io test using gulp-wdio npm pakage on selenium-standalone

The Code that I run in gulp is:

gulp.task('e2e', function () {
return gulp.src('wdio.conf.js')
    .pipe(wdio({
        wdio: {
            specs: './test/features/**/*.feature'
        }
    }));
});

And my wdio.conf.js define browsers this way:

capabilities: [     
        {
            browserName: 'internet explorer',
            version: 'ANY'
        }
    ],

How ever the typing is very slow, i had found on the internet that running 32 bit version of the web-driver resolves the issue, how ever I can't find how to configure the capabilities or some other place to run the IE32 bit driver by default... Any help will be appreciated @:-)

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '17 at 08:43

After 2 days of research I had found the solution !!!

There is a configuration file that need to be supplied to the selenium standalone as shown in this Example
so our final setup is done in this way:

We have a configuration file called wdio.browsers.setup.js that contains the browsers setup:

module.exports = {
    baseURL: 'https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com',
    version: '3.3.1',
    drivers: {
        chrome: {
            version: '2.29',
            arch: process.arch,
            // - Recent versions of the driver: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
            baseURL: 'https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com'
        },
        ie: {
            version: '3.0.0',
            arch: 'ia32',
            // - Recent versions of the driver: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
            baseURL: 'https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com'
        },
        firefox: {
            version: '0.15.0',
            arch: process.arch,
            baseURL: 'https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download'
        }
    }
};

and then inside wdio.conf.js we load it and assign to a special parameters

let browsersSetup = require('./wdio.browsers.setup');
exports.config = {

   seleniumArgs: browsersSetup,
    seleniumInstallArgs: browsersSetup,

After that all is working fine @:-)

Note: if you have your web-driver installed globally remove the global setup first it's located in:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\npm

Then you can run the local installation using:

./node_modules/.bin/selenium-standalone install --config=../../wdio.browsers.setup.js

Good stuff @OBender! I was stuck on this for hours. – Pat May 16 '18 at 18:31 — Pat, May 16 '18 at 18:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 05 '20 at 06:29

Please find the below working solution for IE browser to install 32 bit:

services: ["selenium-standalone"],
seleniumArgs: {
    drivers: {`enter code here`
        ie: {
            version: "3.4.0", // or whatever latest is
            arch: "ia32", // forces use of 32 bit driver
            baseURL: "https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com"
        },
    },
},
seleniumInstallArgs: {
    drivers: {
        ie: {
            version: "3.4.0", // or whatever latest is
            arch: "ia32", // forces use of 32 bit driver
            baseURL: "https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com"
        },
    },
},

How I can start IE in 32bit mode in webdriver.io

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