nightwatch

Nightwatch v0.8

New features

• Running tests with Mocha - support for running Nightwatch tests using Mocha test runner
  • http://nightwatchjs.org/guide#using-mocha

Enhancements

• Added support for automatically taking a screenshot on test failure - based on #442;
  • http://nightwatchjs.org/guide#test-settings
• Added abortOnAssertionFailure global property for controlling whether to abort the test execution when an assertion failed and skip the rest
• Added support for deep merging globals (and other test environment properties) from default test environment; also merging external globals with config globals
• Added support for setting the device orientation
• Added improvements to session command
• Added group_name property on test_settings object available when running using --group option

Important fixes

• Fixed showing original stacktraces in failure messages #615
• Fixed --suiteRetries does not re-run global beforeEach/afterEach #588
• Fixed --suiteRetries option only retries the first test in testsuite #610
• Fixed - test report output for third-party assertion frameworks #601

• Fixed #606 - an issue occuring on expect assertions on page objects

• Fixed #574 should run afterEach with testcase cli option
• Fixed #589 tags were ignored when using filter option
• Fixed an issue in expect assertions occurring when retrying

• Added support for context for testing hybrid mobile apps with Appium
• Added minor improvement for page objects support - #550

• Added custom messages to expect assertions
• Fixed #549 issue retrying failed expect assertions where element is not found
• Fixed #541 parallel test output when running tests with same name
• Fixed #548 where folder fully excluded if trying to exclude one file

• Added screenshots on_error option
• Added suiteRetries cli option to retry failed/errored test cases

• Added support for defining test_workers options per environment
• Fixed exit code is always '0' running tests using test_workers - #510

• Fixed #509 - missing failing teststeps in junit report

Nightwatch v0.7

New features

• Expect assertions - new assertion library based on Chai.js - #456;
  • http://local.nightwatchjs.org/api#expect-api
• Page Objects - added enhanced support for page object model - #414;
  • http://local.nightwatchjs.org/guide#page-objects;
• Parallel running via workers - allows running individual test files in parallel via test workers - based on #317:
  • http://local.nightwatchjs.org/guide#parallel-running

Enhancements

• Added support for automatically taking a screenshot on test failure - based on #442;
  • http://nightwatchjs.org/guide#test-settings
• Added option to retry failing tests #436;
• Added support for not skipping test cases when assertion fails #473;
• Added mouseButtonClick protocol command
• Added support for page_object_path to accept an array

Important fixes

• Fixed an issue with the results not properly set in afterEach hook reported in #442

• Fixed - #500 the issue with starting selenium 2.46
• Fixed an issue with passing the correct context when invoking callback for some client commands

• Fixed a problem with Selenium server log not being written properly in case of test failures/errors

• Added support to show folder name in terminal output before test suite name - #466
• Added mouseButtonClick selenium protocol action.

• Added --skiptags cli option to run tests that do not match the given tags (comma separated)

• Fixed - #458 - nightwatch tries to start multiple instance of Selenium on same port when parallel testing
• Fixed Default selenium.start_session value is not applied when selenium is undefined - #450

• Fixed #438 - an issue with passing a numeric tag
• Fixed the default for test setting silent was set to false instead of true #448
• Fixed minor output issue reported in #444 when running async unit tests

• Fixed - a minor issue where disabled_colors value wasn't always taken into account
• Fixed - #368 WaitForElement commands polling producing HTTP errors until the element was found - updated waitForElement commands to use .elements instead of .element which is not throwing errors but an empty array

• Added - option end_session_on_fail to control automatic termination of the Selenium session when there are failures
• Added - exposed results object on the client.currentTest
• Added - option to retry failed assertions: retryAssertionTimeout - #407
• Fixed - .sessions command was pointing to .session - #287
• Added - POST action support to .session

• Fixed currentTest on api - previously client.api.currentTest.name was an empty string, this fix sets it for each test before running beforeEach
• Fixed - environment-specific selenium settings were not applied in some cases - #411

• Fixed an issue with logging of deprecation notice resulting in a TypeError

• Fixed a problem with reading a hook method name resulting in a TypeError.