Remove dependency to devtools

[thomashohn]

Motivation/Description of the PR

• More info why we remove the dep to devtools of wdio helper: https://webdriver.io/blog/2024/08/15/webdriverio-v9-release/
• Resolves Remove dependency of devtools #4560.

Applicable helpers:

• Playwright
• Puppeteer
• WebDriver
• REST
• FileHelper
• Appium
• TestCafe

Applicable plugins:

• allure
• autoDelay
• autoLogin
• customLocator
• pauseOnFail
• coverage
• retryFailedStep
• screenshotOnFail
• selenoid
• stepByStepReport
• stepTimeout
• wdio
• subtitles

Type of change

• 🔥 Breaking changes
• 🚀 New functionality
• 🐛 Bug fix
• 🧹 Chore
• 📋 Documentation changes/updates
• ♨️ Hot fix
• 🔨 Markdown files fix - not related to source code
• 💅 Polish code

Checklist:

• Tests have been added
• Documentation has been added (Run npm run docs)
• Lint checking (Run npm run lint)
• Local tests are passed (Run npm test)

[thomashohn]

@kobenguyent - maybe you have an idea of the failing tests?
The idea was to have the tests running and then switch driver version

[kobenguyent]

@kobenguyent - maybe you have an idea of the failing tests? The idea was to have the tests running and then switch driver version

hi @thomashohn I reckoned you removed the devtools protocol but still calling this https://github.com/codeceptjs/CodeceptJS/pull/4563/files#diff-06a1e9f6d0b95cc16170ad023c4131c7d35c145e9c6375e492ab48a8b2fa10e4R646

I'd think that causes the issue. Also please check the impact of this removal as this may cause many issues related to this change.

[thomashohn]

I guess I was uncertain what should happen to methods using
startRecordingTraffic and stopRecordingTraffic which use this.page

[kobenguyent]

I guess I was uncertain what should happen to methods using

startRecordingTraffic and stopRecordingTraffic which use this.page

If I'm not wrong, Those methods use the devtools protocol as well.

Initially, you could refer to this PR which introduces devtools #4105

[thomashohn]

@kobenguyent - so Tests are green, removed the requirement to devtools and updated to latest webdriverio on v8 - there might be some documentation that needs adoptions?

[kobenguyent]

@kobenguyent - so Tests are green, removed the requirement to devtools and updated to latest webdriverio on v8 - there might be some documentation that needs adoptions?

Oh great! Thanks for your hard work! regarding docs, just edit the jsdocs, then run npm run docs, it would update the .md files for you.

[thomashohn]

Yes - I was more unsure what to update exactly ;-) And the command seems to update a lot more than I changed ,,,

[kobenguyent]

https://github.com/codeceptjs/CodeceptJS/blob/3.x/package.json#L93 perhaps we need to remove this as well.

[thomashohn]

Should be gone: https://github.com/codeceptjs/CodeceptJS/pull/4563/files#diff-7ae45ad102eab3b6d7e7896acd08c427a9b25b346470d7bc6507b6481575d519

[kobenguyent]

just noticed some places.