How to change IP geographic location in Real Devices on LambdaTest using the Appium & NodeJS Webdriver.io framework

While performing app automation testing with appium on LambdaTest Grid, you may face a scenario where you would like to simulate location of a specific country. You can easily do that by using the lambdatest capability "GeoLocation" and refer the 2-letter country code in the automation script. You can refer to sample test repo here.

Steps:

The following is an example on how to set geoLocation in the capabilities.

Below is the android-single.conf.js example shown:

exports.config = {
  user: process.env.LT_USERNAME || "YOUR_USERNAME",
  key: process.env.LT_ACCESS_KEY || "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
  updateJob: false,
  specs: ["./../specs/android-test.js"],
  exclude: [],
  capabilities: [
    {
      build: "NodeJS WebDriverIO Android",
      name: "Sample Test - WebDriverIO",
      isRealMobile: true,
      platformName: "Android",
      deviceName: "Galaxy S9",
      platformVersion: "10",
      app: "YOUR_APP_URL", //Set your APP URL
      
      //ADD GEOLOCATION BASED ON COUNTRY CODE
      geoLocation: "fr"  
    },
  ],
  logLevel: "info",
  coloredLogs: true,
  screenshotPath: "./errorShots/",
  baseUrl: "",
  waitforTimeout: 10000,
  connectionRetryTimeout: 90000,
  connectionRetryCount: 3,
  path: "/wd/hub",
  hostname: "mobile-hub.lambdatest.com",
  port: 80,
  framework: "mocha",
  mochaOpts: {
    ui: "bdd",
    timeout: 20000,
  },
};

Executing The Tests

npm run single

Execute the following command to run your test on LambdaTest platform:

node ios.js

Your test results would be displayed on the test console (or command-line interface if you are using terminal/cmd) and on the LambdaTest App Automation Dashboard.

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