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

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 #:-)

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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"
},
},
},