Does TestCafe have a way of setting the default browser window size?

Question

Reading the CLI Docs, there doesn't appear to be a way to set the default browser window size. Is there a way to do this so that each test or each test fixture doesn't have to?

I should point out that adding a resizeWindow call in each test, or even once per test fixture is not a scalable solution across many fixtures so the "proper" solution should/would involve some sort of config so it only needs to be set once.

Jeanett

Answer 1

TestCafe does not have such an option out of the box. However, you can put the t.resizeWindow action into the beforeEach test hook.  

Another way is to run a browser with the special command line argument.   For example, the command line for Chrome:

testcafe "chrome '--window-size=800,600'" test.js

Sileas

Yea, the test/test fixture option doesn't scale which is why we were looking to do it via config. Your solution should work perfectly. Thanks so much! – Jeanett

Do you happen to know how to do this for IE11? Thanks. – Jeanett

IE11 doesn't seem to provide a similar command-line option (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/…). So it looks like this approach cannot be used with the IE browser. – Proudfoot

Thanks this worked for me, however, I had to remove the qoutes. Instead it worked this way: chrome --window-size=1600,1200 – Trilinear