Find a way to run TestCafe on macOS without requiring Screen Capture and Automation permissions

What is your Scenario?

I want to run testcafe on a Github Actions macOS 10.15 instance

What is the Current behavior?

Regardless of passing --disable-screenshots and using headless browsers, and not enabling video, testcafe requires the screen recording permission, which there’s no clear way to grant from the command line, only the UI

ERROR UnableToAccessScreenRecordingAPIError: The find-window process cannot access the Screen Recording API.
    at runFindWindowBinary (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe-browser-tools/src/api/find-window.js:36:19)
    at Object.default_1 (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe-browser-tools/src/api/find-window.js:43:15)
    at checkAuthentication (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/cli/authentication-helper.ts:28:26)
    at Object.authenticationHelper [as default] (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/cli/authentication-helper.ts:43:29)
    at Runner._checkRequiredPermissions (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/runner/index.js:530:27)
    at Runner._validateBrowsers (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/runner/index.js:304:13)
    at Runner._validateRunOptions (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/runner/index.js:461:9)

Type "testcafe -h" for help.

What is the Expected behavior?

When screenshots are disabled and video is not enabled, the screen recording permission should not be required

What is your public website URL? (or attach your complete example)

https://learnsomething.app

What is your TestCafe test code?

n/a, happens with any tests

Your complete configuration file

testcafe --config-file ./testcafe.ci.json safari:headless ./e2e/*.test.ts

testcafe.ci.json:

{
    "disableScreenshots": true
}

Your complete test report

ERROR UnableToAccessScreenRecordingAPIError: The find-window process cannot access the Screen Recording API.
    at runFindWindowBinary (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe-browser-tools/src/api/find-window.js:36:19)
    at Object.default_1 (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe-browser-tools/src/api/find-window.js:43:15)
    at checkAuthentication (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/cli/authentication-helper.ts:28:26)
    at Object.authenticationHelper [as default] (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/cli/authentication-helper.ts:43:29)
    at Runner._checkRequiredPermissions (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/runner/index.js:530:27)
    at Runner._validateBrowsers (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/runner/index.js:304:13)
    at Runner._validateRunOptions (/Users/runner/work/learn-something/learn-something/node_modules/testcafe/src/runner/index.js:461:9)

Type "testcafe -h" for help.
ERROR: "test:e2e:safari:headless" exited with 1.
ERROR: "test:e2e:ci:mac" exited with 1.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Screenshots

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run testcafe on a macOS 10.15 instance in Github Actions

TestCafe version

1.17.1

Node.js version

v15.3.0

Command-line arguments

–config-file ./testcafe.ci.json safari:headless ./e2e/*.test.ts

Browser name(s) and version(s)

Safari, not sure of the version

Platform(s) and version(s)

macOS 10.15 in Github Actions

Other

No response

[roelvandijk88]

It’s working again with the v1.18.0 upgrade instructions. My studio isn’t working but that should be fixed with the release of 1.7.0. Thanks for the help 😃

[AlexanderMoiseev]

Hi,

Thank you for your input. We have reproduced the problem. Please stay tuned.

Note for team - reproducible on Intel machine.