Timeout of 10000ms exceeded even when timeout is give as 30000

Task for the test:

gulp.task('mds', ['default', 'selenium'], function() {
    return gulp.src('wdio.conf.js')
    .pipe(webdriver({
        waitforTimeout: 30000,
        reporter: 'spec'
    })).on('error', function() {
        seleniumServer.kill();
        process.exit(1);
    });
});

Config file: waitforTimeout: 30000,

At both places I’m giving timeout as 30000, but still the test will timeout at 10000.

[18:28:53] spawn wdio with these attributes:
 /Usxxxers/xxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxx/public_html/tests/wdio.conf.js
--waitforTimeout=30000
--reporter=spec

[christian-bromann]

As you can get from the docs the waitforTimeout sets the default timeout for all waitForXXX commands. If you want to increase the test timeout you need to set it in your framework options like in Mocha:

// wdio.conf.js
// ...
mochaOpts: {
    timeout: 99999999
}
// ...

[christian-bromann]

in your wdio.conf.js as shown in the example