Parallel execution error on version 1.2.1 - "Maximum call stack size exceeded"

What are you trying to achieve?

Run multiple tests in parallel

What do you get instead?

RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded at normalizeStringWin32 (path.js:33:30) at Object.resolve (path.js:338:20) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:68:14) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:77:24) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:78:17) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:78:17) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:78:17) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:78:17) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:78:17) at sync (C:.…\npm\node_modules\codeceptjs\node_m odules\mkdirp\index.js:78:17) path.js:33 function normalizeStringWin32(path, allowAboveRoot) {

Seems related to #1068

Details

• CodeceptJS version: 1.2.1
• NodeJS Version: 8.9.4
• Operating System: Windows 7
• WebDriverIO Version: 4.12.0
• Configuration file:

{
  "output": "./output",
  "helpers": {
    "WebDriverIO": {
      "url": "url",
      "browser": "chrome",
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": "4444",
      "coloredLogs": true,
      "restart": false,
      "windowSize": "maximize",
      "keepCookies": true,
      "smartWait": 5000
    }
  },
  "multiple": {
    "blah": {
      "chunks": 2,
      "grep": "@blah"
    }
  },
  "include": {
    ...
  },
  "mocha": {},
  "bootstrap": false,
  "teardown": null,
  "hooks": [],
  "tests": "./tests/**/*/*_test.js",
  "timeout": 10000,
  "name": "codecept"
}

[rickschubert]

Just a quick thing because I have read that other people had the same issue: I added a chrome extension to my WDIO test by adding it base64 encoded to capabilities.chromeOptions.extensions. Due to that, I saw the following error on each exit though: Maximum call stack size exceeded, even when the feature didn’t have any errors. The solution was to remove the extension again from the capabilities before spawning, like so:

    before: (capabilities) => {
        // We have to remove the base64 encoded chrome browser extensions as
        // the object WDIO carries along otherwise takes up too much memory
        delete capabilities.chromeOptions.extensions
}

[jsparks19]

This is working for me now after upgrading to 1.3.0. Thank you