wdio-vscode-service VS vscode-test

Compare wdio-vscode-service vs vscode-test and see what are their differences.

wdio-vscode-service

A service to test VSCode extensions from end to end using WebdriverIO (by webdriverio-community)

vscode-test

Testing utility for VS Code extensions (by microsoft)
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wdio-vscode-service vscode-test
2 2
29 224
- 0.9%
7.8 6.7
16 days ago about 1 month ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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wdio-vscode-service

Posts with mentions or reviews of wdio-vscode-service. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.

vscode-test

Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-test. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.
  • Battle-Testing Nx Console with E2E Tests
    6 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2022
    Integration Tests combine multiple parts of your software and test them together. They are a good option for testing some behaviour of extensions. If you read the docs, they suggest using the @vscode/test-electron package and mocha. This will allow you to run tests inside an actual VSCode instance, so you avoid mocking. However, you are still constrained. The API gives limited information on many areas. For example even this very simple test is not easily realizable with the VSCode API:
  • vscode-generator-code generates wrong test codes?
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2022
    At the beginning, I thought @vscode/test-electron didn't work well, but I can run https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-test without errors 😓

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wdio-vscode-service and vscode-test you can also consider the following projects:

nx-console - Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna.

vscode-named-save

WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js

mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

Code-Server - VS Code in the browser