nightwatch

Nightwatch v0.9

New features

• Improved unit testing support - improved support for running unit tests with Nightwatch has been significantly improved (available behind the compatible_testcase_support setting); unit tests are also compatible with Mocha's exports interface and all the Nightwatch unit tests have been rewritten in this format. More details: http://nightwatchjs.org/guide#unit-testing
• Improved output for parallel running - test output when running tests in parallel has been improved to be more readable and by setting detailed_output to false it will be even easier to follow.
• Specify multiple test sources - it is now possible to directly specify several test files or folders as arguments to the cli runner. More details: http://local.nightwatchjs.org/guide#running-tests

Enhancements

• Added support for requiring subdirectories in page object path.
• Added support for passing multiple group names.
• Added detailed_output option to support showing only the testcase names in the log without assertion info

Important fixes

• Fixed #924 Not possible to create custom assertion with no arguments
• Fixed #873 junit report does not include the failed assertion information
• Fixed an issue with elementNotPresent occurring in Edge

• Added windowPosition protocol action and setWindowPosition command
• Added support to persist globals between testsuites via the persist_globals setting
• Fixed an issue where globals weren't properly merged when overwritting properties on deep levels
• Added support for page objects elements property to accept an array

• Added support to fail the test when an exception is thrown in a global hook by passing the error message to the done callback;
• Added new props object on the page object which can hold various properties; if props is a function, it is with the page as its context.
• Added error messages to the results object as the errmessages array.

• Fixed "maxBuffer exceeded" error when running tests in parallel if the standard output exceeds 200Kb.

• Fixed #710 - Added support for using both --tag and --skiptags options together;
• Fixed #745 - In some cases the command queue wasn't cleared properly (when an sync assertion fails, e.g. assert.ok()).

• Added asyncHookTimeout global property for controlling the timeout for async hooks; if the done callback is not invoked within the set time in milliseconds an error is thrown.

• Added support for exiting with non-zero code on failures when using mocha as test runner.

• Fixed #629 - cannot load tests from folder outside the cwd.

• Fixed #764 - use custom waitFor timeout value if available when using expect instead of globally defined

• Fixed #687 - Stale element reference causes waitForElementVisible to fail.

• Fixed #734 - currentTest object doesnt get passed in global afterEach

• Fixed #717 - an issue with not properly handling the failures from before hooks
• Fixed #708 - misleading error message if syntax error in globals_path

• Added proxy option for proxying requests to selenium server.

• Added group name as package in junit xml reports.
• Improved stability for async hooks.

• Added support for loading stock chai expect assertions onto the expect api - #640

• Fixed #671 - Parallel mode doesn't exit with non-zero code when one of the envs fail
• Fixed #654 - Screenshot option is not working with Mocha on Windows

• Fixed #636 - updated elementPresent/NotPresent assertions to use elements commands to avoid errors being thrown by selenium
• Added global default timeout support for expect assertions - #632

• Added - group property on currentTest object containing the group name, if any
• Fixed - an issue with the global hooks occurring when performing commands

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