v2.5.1

• Fixed #3475: an issue with propagating the exit code properly when using the programmatic api
• Other – upgrade Selenium to 4.6.1

v2.5.0

New features

• Run tests on Mobile web

  • end to end setup required to run tests on Mobile web using the @nightwatch/mobile-helper
  • test your website/web app on Android (Chrome & Firefox) & iOS (Safari)

• Nx monorepo integration with the Nx plugin @nightwatch/nx

Improvements

• Added support for writing globals, page objects, and commands in ESM format c40f86

Fixes

• Fixed #3440 – socket hang up error when report_network_errors is enabled
• Fixed #3465 – an issue with using testSuite retries with enable_fail_fast enabled
• Fixed #3470 – issue with Actions API when passing async callback to browser.perform()

Other

• Upgraded selenium-webdriver to 4.5.0

Release Walkthrough Video

Mobile Helper, Nx support (monorepos), API Testing and more: Nightwatch Release Walkthrough v2.5.0

v2.4.2

• Added an improvement for error messages shown when running React component tests
• Fixed --open cli argument wasn't working properly #3459
• Added support for launching the local web server for component testing from the android emulator #3460
• Fixed an issue with displaying the http output in the HTML reporter when running tests in parallel 3462

v2.4.1

• Fixed an issue resulting from await-ing test hooks properly in some cases 4f6c31

v2.4.0

New features

The v2.4.0 release brings improved support for Component Testing, which includes:

• @nightwatch/storybook
  • new official plugin which integrates Nightwatch with Storybook
  • adds ability to run component stories directly from Nightwatch, including:
    • interaction tests using the play() function
    • run test hooks in the Nightwatch context
    • run test() function in the Nightwatch context
    • run configured accessibility rules automatically using the axe-core suite of commands
• vite-plugin-nightwatch
  • upgraded plugin to use Vite 3
• @nightwatch/vue
  • new dedicated Vue.js component testing plugin which includes Vite 3 and manages its own Vite dev server
• @nightwatch/react
  • added support for writing component tests using the Component Story Format which supports JSX directly

New CLI flags

• --serial to run tests in serial mode (disable parallelism)
• --workers to specify the number of test workers to be used when running tests in parallel
• --reuse-browser to reuse the browser session if running in serial mode

component testing related

• --debug – automatically pause the test execution after mounting the component and open the Nightwatch debug REPL interface.
• --story - allows to specify which story to run from the current file (when using Storybook or JSX written in component story format)
• --preview - used to preview a component story/test; automatically pause the test execution after mounting the component.

Other Improvements

• Added support to use --devtools CLI flag in Edge and Safari to open the Dev Tools automatically
• Added support to enable running tests in parallel by default if not set PR #3364
• Added support for using nightwatch.conf.ts as config file and a few other improvements for running typescript tests PR #3316

Fixes

• Fixed #3404 an issue with the moveTo command
• Fixed #3256 .verify assertions do not resolve when called from within the .perform() command

v2.3.9

Minor update for the axe-nightwatch-verbose dependency.

v2.3.8

• Fixed #3396 showing version using the --version cli flag
• Fixed #3336 an issue with using browser.resizeWindow()

v2.3.7

Fixed #3355 – updating the build name using client.updateCapabilities did not work

v2.3.6

• Added nightwatch-axe-verbose as a bundled dependency to enable accessibility testing out of the box #3389

v2.3.5

• Added new CLI flag ``--report-filename` to specify the report file name for the JSON reporter d73a6f
• Fixed #3361 -- expect.cookie always returning undefined value
• Fixed an issue where the error thrown for using incorrect arguments for element commands was not reported if using async/await testcase e9e38c
• Fixed #3372 -- chaining custom commands from page objects when imported through plugins interface
• Added analytics feature to collect anonymous user metrics (opt in only) PR #3141