My spectron app.client doesn't contains all the methods - electron

Question

I'm trying to test my electron app using spectron and mocha, here is my file 'first.js' containing my tests:
const assert = require('assert');
const path = require('path');
const {Application} = require('spectron');
const electronPath = require('electron');
describe('GULP Tests', function () {
this.timeout(30000)
const app = new Application({
path: electronPath,
args: [path.join(__dirname, '..', 'main.js')]
});
//Start the electron app before each test
before(() => {
return app.start();
});
//Stop the electron app after completion of each test
after(() => {
if (app && app.isRunning()) {
return app.stop();
}
});
it('Is window opened', async () => {
const count = await app.client.getWindowCount();
return assert.equal(count, 1);
});
it('Clicks on the project creation button', async () => {
await app.client.waitUntilWindowLoaded();
const title = await app.client.
console.log(title);
return assert.equal(title, 'Welcome to GULP, !');
});
});
My first test is passing, but for the second one i'd like to do a click on an element, but my app.client does not contain a .click methods, and also no getText or getHTML. I've tried to import browser from webdriverio but it was the same problem, I get an error when testing saying me that those methods doesn't exists. I've red the spectron documentation and they're using .click and .getText methods regularly, why I don't get them ? I've imported spectron as it's said in the documentation to.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I have struggled with the same issue for a while. After much trial and error i changed my async methods to normal functions.
it('Clicks on the project creation button', function() {
app.client.waitUntilWindowLoaded();
const title = await app.client.
console.log(title);
return assert.equal(title, 'Welcome to GULP, !');
});
Strange but it worked for me. hopefully it helps.