Use WebdriverIOs driver setup mechanism

[seanpoulter]

Context

This is my attempt to drive #94 ahead. I believe your branch was very close and mostly needed to set the browserVersion.

Proposed Changes

• Remove npm packges for chromedriver and wdio-chromedriver-service
• Use WebdriverIO's setup mechanism
  • Do not download ChromeDriver
• Remove unused utilities

Questions

• Would you rather review on a call?
• What do we need to do to support Chromium/ChromeDriver v114? The pipeline fails for v1.83.
• Should we make the peer dependency on webdriverio explicitly ^8.14.0?
• Want a separate PR to update dependencies? It looks like that was folded into Use WebdriverIOs driver setup mechanism #94 as well but I didn't include it to try to simplify the change.
• Would you prefer to keep the ServiceCapability interface?

[christian-bromann]

Can we update the CI tests to run on VS Code v1.84 minimum? This should hopefully resolve the problem. I think we need to set the minimum VS Code version to the one that runs on Chromium 115 and make this a breaking change.

[seanpoulter]

Will do.

I'm curious, if you did need to support older versions would you be able to keep wdio-chromedriver-service and it'd override the core implementation?

[christian-bromann]

Yeah .. maybe we can include a section with some information about it, e.g. adding chromedriver to the package.json and add it as service. Not sure how straightforward it is.

[seanpoulter]

Ah, 1.85 is looking for Chromedriver 114. The VS Code manifests confirm that it uses v118 in 1.86.0.

[christian-bromann]

💚

Can we add some documentation about the versioning?

[seanpoulter]

I've updated the docs. The pipeline failure is a timeout at line 20578.

[seanpoulter]

This should close #101.

It no longer closes #97 (update deps). Let me know which deps and I'll get a PR up for that too.

[christian-bromann]

This is awesome, thanks for your efforts!

LGTM 👍

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[christian-bromann]

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