Detox

Closed Issues

• Unable to install Detox 8.2.3 using Xcode 10 beta 6 #913
• Task :detox:compileMinReactNative46DebugJavaWithJavac FAILED #919

Merged Pull Requests

• Use legacy build system to build framework #940 (karanjthakkar)
• [Android] Remove @override annotation to support RN 0.53-0.55 on detox 9.0 #922 (JamesWatling)

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Breaking changes

• RN 0.56.0 Android Support #910 - (@rotemmiz)

New features

• Add support for disabling touch indicators with launch args #899 - (@haswalt)

Migration Guide:
https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/docs/Guide.Migration.md#migrating-from-detox-8xx-to-9xx

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New Feature

• New logger subsystem (Bunyan) #835 (@noomorph)

Improvements

• Printing environment variables before jest test command #852 (@noomorph)

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New Feature - breaking changes

• Screenshots, logs and video recordings of tests #734 (@noomorph)

Documentation:
https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/docs/APIRef.Artifacts.md

Migration Guide:
https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/docs/Guide.Migration.md#migrating-from-detox-7xx-to-8xx

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Bug fixes

• Android: Support RN50-51 changes #652 @rotemmiz

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Features

• Support UserActivity #622 @LeoNatan
• CLI: detox test automatically filter platform tests by inferring from config @rotemmiz

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Features

• Add exception and signal handling for iOS #453 @LeoNatan @rotemmiz

Bug fixes

• Solving device API sync issues, detox will now wait for app to be idle before executing native functionality (reloadReactNative, openURL).

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BREAKING CHANGES:

Support Android gradle plugin 3.0.0 (with gradle 4.0) this breaks earlier gradle versions #503 @rotemmiz

Features

• Explicit imports during initialization #374 @trofima

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BREAKING CHANGES:

• Stopped transpiling detox and detox-server, main runs from sources now, and require node >=7.6.0 #404 @mrtnrst
• Detox CLI: Jest integration fixes #423 @Niryo , @rotemmiz
  command line:
  runner option has been removed, will only be available from json config in package.json
  json config:
  key name change: test-runner instead of runner
test-runner should be passed with relative path from root, it will not join path with specs anymore.

Features

• Support for filtering platform specific tests in detox-cli #435 @rotemmiz

iOS

• Display touch visualizers when using Detox #426 - @LeoNatan

Android

• Replace Jackson parser with a JSONObject #351 - @DanielMSchmidt
• Better Android emulator sync - #434 @rotemmiz

Bug fixes

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Bug Fixes

#373 Move Detox.framework compilation to postinstall - @rotemmiz
#356 Move Detox.framework compilation to postinstall rather than driver prepare to attempt to fix #356 (Timeouts while running detox.init()).

Features

#98 allow absolute path in detox binaryPath configuration

iOS

support for RN <0.49 - @LeoNatan

Bug Fixes

#391 Crash in prettyPrintAppStateTracker in Detox 5.9.3 - @LeoNatan
#388 Detox.framework could not be found” when attempting “ios.none” type configuration - @rotemmiz
#380 running detox build-framework-cache produces different output directory than expected - @rotemmiz
#368 Mocha 4.0.x: Test process never finishes. Cleaning up Detox client by closing ws socket. - @rotemmiz

• Switched to EarlGrey 1.12.1 (fixes a network sync issue)
• detox-test cli: replaced spread operator with object.assign to support early versions of Node

Features

#335 Basic support for Jest as test ruuner - @Kureev

iOS

• Official React Native 0.49 support on iOS - debugged by @Kureev , blindly fixed with one hand behind his back @LeoNatan, tested, verified in a test suite @rotemmiz

Android

• Added --debug-synchronization support for Android - @simonracz

Bug Fixes

• #270 - Detox Incompatibility with Firebase SDK - @LeoNatan
• #279 - std::__1::bad_function_call (crash when using RN >= 0.48) - @LeoNatan

Features

iOS

• #292 - Removed dependency on fbsimctl. Instead, Detox now uses xcrun simctl to control simulators and applesimutils for special features. This also enables Xcode 9 support - @DanielZlotin

Android

• #295, #96 - Support for full Android Emulator control, boot/shutdown are synchronized with Detox @rotemmiz

Bug Fixes

• Android - Set Timer lookahead threshold to 15ms. @simonracz

Features

• Fixed #277 - Swift Support. Detox will now build the framework on the user's machine, to avoid Swift version mismatch. @LeoNatan @rotemmiz

Bug Fixes

• Possible fix for #270 - Fix crash due to recursive class duplication. @LeoNatan

Features

• Updated EarlGrey to v1.11

Bug Fixes

• Fixed #165 - "Could not cast value of type 'DetoxAppDelegateProxy' (0x1043b7118) to 'AppDelegate'" @LeoNatan
• Fixed #219 - convert setLocation params to string with comma as decimal separator @formatlos
• Fixed #220 - Adjust non-swiping direction start percentage to be above 0 @yedidyak

Bug Fix

• Fixes #205

Features

• Added test artifacts infrastructure, every test has its own isolated application logs, more here
• Added support for tapAtPoint() (https://github.com/wix/detox/pull/189) @blankg
• Better control of first app initialization
• Introduce new API device.launchApp()
  , deprecating device.relaunchApp()
• Adding custom launch arguments to apps
• Introducing new API device.sendToHome()

Bug Fixes

• Disabled verbose debugging log for idling resources ☣️ DETOX:: %@ -> busy"

Switched to simctl for launch and terminate, allowed process stdout and stderr logging

Bug Fixes

• Fixed 172 - device.openURL() now uses in-process mocking mechanism for testing of deep links
• Better print output of test synchronization status using --debug-synchronization