The whole Webdriverio development team is stoked and proud to release WebdriverIO v9 today!

This marks the beginning of a new exciting era for all projects using WebdriverIO as their test automation tool. With the great work of browser teams that are working on e.g. Chrome and Firefox, we now enter a new era that offers much greater automation capabilities than ever before thanks to the new WebDriver Bidi protocol. With WebdriverIO v9 we have been working to be at the forefront of adopters of this new era and allow you to leverage from the power of the protocol first.

WebdriverIO is build to test various types of applications, from web or mobile applications towards native desktop apps or even VS Code extensions. But what about Chrome DevTools plugins? In this blog post we explore how one could interact with an extension build for Chrome Devtools.

We are thrilled to announce the latest update to the WebdriverIO Visual Testing module. This release brings two significant enhancements: making the Visual Testing Module a pure JS module and the introduction of a new CLI argument for automatic baseline updates.