Test input improvements on iOS:

• Clear text now selects all text and taps backspace
• Type text ensures the cursor is moved to the end of the text range before inserting text

Implements a new visibility testing algorithm on iOS, that takes into account possible occluding windows, superviews and keyboard. Should be also considerably faster than before.

Fixes

• Fixes minor race conditions bugs on premature test runner failure (https://github.com/wix/Detox/pull/2335, by @noomorph)

Fixes

• fix(cli): double dash -- argv forwarding (#2339, by @noomorph)

Features

• Introduce the toHaveToggleValue() expectation, for asserting toggle widgets' state (such as switches and check-boxes). Example: await expect(element(by.id('switch'))).toHaveToggleValue(true) (#2334)

Fixes

• Prevent flooding of device status inquiries when debug-synchronization is enabled, eventually causing node.js' memory to run out (#2333).

Android

• Greatly improve double-tapping action's stability and accuracy (#2332)

Resolve jest-cli relatively to jest itself - resolves issues where Detox could not resolve jest-cli if is a transitive dependency (thus requiring jest-cli to be a direct dependency of the user's project) - (#2330) @noomorph

We've listened to feedback. Interactions on iOS are now much less strict. No more testing for views to see if they are interactive; if a view is visible at the interaction point, the interaction is allowed.

Hotfixes

• hotfix(cli): backward compatible path handling (#2323, by @noomorph)

In case if a user was calling node_modules/.bin/detox test ..., there was an issue:

/bin/sh: jest: command not found

This hotfix release should resolve the issue.

Breaking changes

1. If you see Cannot find module 'jest-cli/build/cli/args' error, you should add jest-cli to your package.json's devDependencies and re-run npm install, e.g.:

 "devDependencies": {
   "jest": "25.5.4",
+  "jest-cli": "25.5.4",

2. If you see an error similar to 'jest' is not recognized as an internal or external command, please upgrade your detox-cli global package:

npm -g install detox-cli

See some extra details in the Migration Guide.

Features

CLI

• New -R, --retries option (#2269, by @noomorph) — supported only for the new Jest Circus integration.
  If you are still using jest-jasmine or the legacy Jest Circus integration, follow the Jest setup guide to hop aboard.

Fixes

General

• Debug sync will be activated on all WS calls, not only on invoke. (#2300, by @rotemmiz)

iOS

• If there is no RN and reactNativeReload is sent, just send ready (#2317, by @LeoNatan)
• If a button label is targeted by a matcher, bubble the hit test to it… (#2317, by @LeoNatan)

Chaged the percentage parameter of swipe to be in screen coordinate space rather than element bounds coordinate space on iOS.

• feat(jest): support artifact collection with jest.retryTimes(n) (#2242, by @noomorph)

• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to tap on alert view buttons on iOS when selecting by.text().
• Typing/clearing/replacing text no longer requires the element be hittable before attempting the action on iOS.

Officially supporting RN 0.63.

Android:

• Enable parallel test-execution over attached (e.g. physical, Genymotion-cloud) devices (i.e. not just emulators), by upgrading the device name configuration to a RegExp (#2169) @DmytroKost
• Allow for native-level configuration of the wait-time for RN loading via Detox.runTests() (#2231)

Fixed a crash when internal Detox math would produce nan, which cannot be serialized as JSON.

New Major Feature: Element Screenshot (Android-only!) (#2012)

On top of Detox' existing device.takeScreenshot() API, we now support taking a visual screenshot of specific on-screen elements.
Refer to our documentation for full details.

Note: As a side-effect (see #2214), we introduced a subtle breaking change in all drivers, which affects external plug-in drivers you may have had implemented for your project. The fix is simple, and should be applied according to the following diff-snippet:

class Expect {
-  constructor(invocationManager) {
+  constructor({ invocationManager }) {
     this._invocationManager = invocationManager;
  }
}

class PluginDriver {
  constructor() {
-    this.matchers = new Expect(new invocationManager());
  }
}

-module.exports = PluginDriver;
+module.exports = {
+  DriverClass: PluginDriver,
+  ExpectClass: Expect,
+}

Namely, Detox now owns the instantiation of the Expect class, instead of the plugin.

More

• Added support for --inspect-brk flag to Detox' cli which, when provided, would launch Detox' underlying test-runner (e.g. Jest, Mocha) in a wait-for-debugger mode (more precisely, it would launch the node.js instance in inspect mode) (#2177)

Fix a crash related to RN 0.63 on Android (#2210)

• feat(android): new device.utilBinaryPaths configuration property (by @d4vidi, #2188)
• fix(android): APK installing issue on Windows (by @noomorph, #2212)

Improvements to visibility and hit testing and error logging.