[🐛Bug]: Error in console `ENOENT: no such file or directory, open Video-reporter.log` after run tests about wdio-video-reporter

[christian-bromann]

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[Oleksii-QA]

@christian-bromann I investigated this issue many times. And I think I found the reason.

First, logs are created:
wdio.log, wdio,browser.log, drivers log(chromedriver, geckodriver)
after 2 second logs are created:
Video-reporter.log and rawSeleniumVideoGrabs folder

That's why I think there were cases with bug;
Test run in 58-59 second of some minute, and wdio-0-0-Video-reporter.log could not be created, since the next minute had already arrived

I have added a temporary solution in wdio.conf.js, like:

import fs from 'fs'

const logsPath = './logs';
const folderName = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm');
const folderPath = `${logsPath}/${folderName}`;
fs.mkdirSync(folderPath, { recursive: true });
const allFolders = fs.readdirSync(logsPath);
const sortedFolders = allFolders.sort((a, b) => {
    return fs.statSync(`${logsPath}/${b}`).ctime.getTime() - fs.statSync(`${logsPath}/${a}`).ctime.getTime();
});
const latestFolder = sortedFolders[0];
console.log('Latest test folder', latestFolder);

export const config = {

outputDir: `${logsPath}/${latestFolder}`,

In this case, the log folder will be created before each test run.

I think the permanent solution would be to create logs at the same time. Or need to look for other options.

[christian-bromann]

Test run in 58-59 second of some minute, and wdio-0-0-Video-reporter.log could not be created, since the next minute had already arrived

So the reports are being overwritten by another test?

[Oleksii-QA]

So the reports are being overwritten by another test?

In this case, the file is not created and the test fails

[christian-bromann]

How does the test fail due to a non existing log file?

[Oleksii-QA]

How does the test fail due to a non existing log file?

In this case, I think the error was not that the file does not exist. The problem is that it tried to create a log file in a non-existent folder.

[christian-bromann]

Ah, I think this can be fixed. All contributions would be appreciated!