Upgrade extensions/Popups to webdriver.io 9
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	Jun 13 2025, 4:03 AM

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Stalled	None	T396459 Upgrade WebdriverIO in all repositories
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Resolved	Peter	T396829 Upgrade extensions/Popups to webdriver.io 9

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Peter created this task.Jun 13 2025, 4:03 AM

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Change #1156609 had a related patch set uploaded (by Phedenskog; author: Phedenskog):

[mediawiki/extensions/Popups@master] selenium: Upgrade to webdriver.io 9

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1156609

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 13 2025, 4:07 AM

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Peter mentioned this in T363704: Upgrade WebdriverIO to v9 in all repositories.Jun 15 2025, 9:09 PM

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@Peter is this something you need help with or can this task be considered abandoned? I don't know much about Selenium these days but I can help with any npm upgrades if you need them (i've unblocked the typescript issues).

The issue here seems to be same as RelatedArticles now?
Error: Unable to load spec files quite likely because they rely on browser` object that is not fully initialized.
12:07:28 [0-0] browser object has only capabilities and some flags like isMobile`

Let us take this up again, this seems to be a generic problem with the 9 upgrade with the upgrade to ESM inside of wdio. Let's make sure we take this the next sprint.

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Peter mentioned this in T403981: Upgrading extension to webdriver 9 causes "Error: Unable to load spec files quite likely because they rely on browser".Sep 8 2025, 3:49 PM

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I looked into the RelatedArticles and that seems to be something else. This problems looks like it was introduced in wdio9 when they moved to ES6 module system. I cannot reproduce this when I run this locally with Quickstart. Let me start again tomorrow ad have a look and see how we can get something useful out of the log to understand what's wrong,

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I could see now when working in other stuff, it seems like:

[0-5] RUNNING in chrome - file:///tests/selenium/docs/Use_MediaWiki_API/specs/api.js
[0-5] 2025-09-11T09:46:46.501Z ERROR @wdio/runner: Error: Unable to load spec files quite likely because they rely on `browser` object that is not fully initialized.
[0-5] `browser` object has only `capabilities` and some flags like `isMobile`.
[0-5] Helper files that use other `browser` commands have to be moved to `before` hook.

Happens if there's an error in one of the files. I had missed to change an import that pointed to a file that do not exist. I wonder if there could be something that do not compile here, let me check that.

Peter moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the Test-Platform (dek tri (Current Sprint)) board.Sep 12 2025, 8:59 AM

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The problem here was some miss-sync in package-lock. I got the one from master, installed again in fresh and then it worked.

Change #1156609 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Popups@master] selenium: Upgrade to webdriver.io 9

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1156609

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