Not able to use webdriver / protractor for electron app test automation about chromedriver HOT 2 OPEN

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With this config

capabilities: { 'browserName': 'chrome', chromeOptions: { binary: './node_modules/.bin/electron', args: ['app=./main.js'] } }
Following error is obtained on executing the tests.

[10:59:03] E/launcher - unknown error: Failed to create a Chrome process. (Driver info: chromedriver=77.0.3865.10 (bc3579f611bbc73331171afe020ec7a45e6ccc55-refs/branch-heads/3865@{#93}),platform=Windows NT 10.0.18362 x86_64) [10:59:03] E/launcher - WebDriverError: unknown error: Failed to create a Chrome process. (Driver info: chromedriver=77.0.3865.10 (bc3579f611bbc73331171afe020ec7a45e6ccc55-refs/branch-heads/3865@{#93}),platform=Windows NT 10.0.18362 x86_64) at Object.checkLegacyResponse (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:546:15) at parseHttpResponse (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:509:13) at doSend.then.response (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:441:30) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7) From: Task: WebDriver.createSession() at Function.createSession (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver.js:769:24) at Function.createSession (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chrome.js:761:15) at Direct.getNewDriver (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\driverProviders\direct.js:77:33) at Runner.createBrowser (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:195:43) at q.then.then (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:339:29) at _fulfilled (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:834:54) at C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:863:30 at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:796:13) at C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:556:49 at runSingle (C:\Users\coder\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:137:13) [10:59:03] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199

from chromedriver.

Try defining the remote-debugging-port to 9515 as a chrome option.

from chromedriver.