Nightwatch

UI automated testing framework powered by Node.js. It uses the Selenium WebDriver API.

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Selenium WebDriver standalone server

Nightwatch works with the Selenium standalone server so the first thing you need to do is download the selenium server jar file selenium-server-standalone-3.x.x.jar from the Selenium releases page: https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

@hubject/nightwatch fork

Why a fork?

Originally nightwatch isn't able to load typescript files - This is what this fork fixes (A PR from another contributor trying to solve this, was ignored by the nightwatch team)

How to update?

Create a pull request from nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releasev0.9 branch against hubject/nightwatch/master.

⚠️ This fork is based on 0.9 version of nightwatch, which is still the latest stable version of nightwatch(2018-11-13). Since version 1.0 of nightwatch won't be backwards compatible regarding its code base (1.0 is a complete rewrite), we should skip back to 1.0 at least when 1.0 supports typescript.

Install Nightwatch

Install Node.js and then:

$ git clone https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch.git
$ cd nightwatch
$ npm install

Run tests

The tests for Nightwatch are written using Mocha exports interface so they can also be run with Nightwatch itself.

To run the unit tests using mocha, do:

$ npm test

To run the unit tests using Nightwatch, do:

$ npm run unit-tests

To check test coverage, run the command:

$ npm run mocha-coverage

and then open the generate file coverage.html in your browser.

Discuss

The Mailing List/Google Group is the most appropriate tool for Nightwatch related discussions. In addition, there is a StackOverflow Nightwatch.js tag at your disposal and Twitter.

Setup Guides

Specific WebDriver setup guides can be found on the Docs website. Legacy Selenium drivers setup guides along with debugging instructions can be found on the Wiki.