Regex used for determining feature breaks when cucumber step files are under a `steps` directory

[nrosevear]

Using the devtools service 10.3.0 with wdio 9.24.0 and cucumber when we have a structure of src/features, src/steps, and src/pages results int he debugger loading but actions and source tabs being blank (console and network tabs do load however). Also it is incredibly slow running tests with the debugger.

After digging the root issue seems to be this regex

/\/(test|spec|features|pageobjects|@wdio\/expect-webdriverio)\//i

The regex does not include steps. To prove the issue renaming our steps directory to spec fixed the issue and the tests run fast and the actions and source and log tabs now all load and populate data.

What see when steps are under the steps directory
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I have not tested it but I suspect creating a new repo with boilerplate cucumber could probably reproduce the issue.

If the regex could be updated or made configurable that would solve the issue

[vishnuv688]

@nrosevear Thanks for the detailed report. Could you share a minimal repo so I can confirm the regex path is what's failing here?

[nrosevear]

@vishnuv688 thanks for getting back to me. I don't have a repo I can share but you can reproduce using the boilerplate with these steps

$ git clone https://github.com/webdriverio/cucumber-boilerplate.git && cd cucumber-boilerplate

$ git checkout 805b91f
$ nvm use 24.15.0

$ npm install --save-dev \
  @wdio/cli@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/config@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/cucumber-framework@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/globals@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/local-runner@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/spec-reporter@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/static-server-service@9.27.1 \
  webdriverio@9.27.1 \
  @wdio/devtools-service@10.3.0

# wdio.BUILD.conf.ts [manual file edit]
#   uncomment and set services to  [['devtools']] to the wdio.conf file (e.g.  services: [['devtools']],)

$ npm run test:features -- --spec ./src/features/githubLogin.feature

It should start the devtools debugger and runthe test and you will see no screenshots or actions or source

[vishnuv688]

Fixed in #206:

SPEC_FILE_PATTERN in packages/service/src/constants.ts was a hardcoded directory allowlist (test|spec|features|pageobjects|@wdio/expect-webdriverio). Step files in src/steps/ never matched, so the stack-walk in packages/service/src/index.ts found no user frame and nothing entered the command stack — Actions/Source/Log/Console/Network all empty.

Replaced with an inverted classifier in utils.ts: anything outside node_modules/ and Node internals is user code (with a carve-out for @wdio/expect-webdriverio). Works for steps, step_definitions, or any custom directory.