Engineering Blog | Nightwatch.js

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web testing

Advanced Techniques and Scenarios in Web Testing

Learn how to test the complex elements and user interactions of the web. We'll go over advanced testing concepts and scenarios while showcasing the extensive capabilities of what Nightwatch can do.

end to end testing

Basics of Writing Nightwatch Web Tests

Learn how to test most scenarios on the web using these 3 techniques → finding elements, interacting, and asserting their properties.

web testing

Get Started with Web Testing Using Nightwatch

Discover how to get started with web testing using Nightwatch, a powerful no-compromise test automation framework. Learn how to install Nightwatch, set up your testing environment, and write basic end-to-end tests.

new release

Introducing Nightwatch v3—the only test automation framework you need

Nightwatch is a no-compromise test automation framework with a powerful set of tools to write, run and debug your tests across web and native mobile applications.

Component Testing

Test your React Components with Nightwatch and Testing Library

React component testing in Nightwatch has been recently refined (via the @nightwatch/react plugin) and support for using the popular Testing Library with Nightwatch has been added.

Component Testing

Component Driven Development with Storybook and Nightwatch

Storybook integration is part of Nightwatch starting with v2.4 via the @nightwatch/storybook plugin, currently available for React.

Getting Started

New Nightwatch VS Code Extension

Stay in your zone while testing. Run your Nightwatch tests from VS Code itself without switching windows or screens to run or debug your tests.

Introducing Nightwatch Chrome Recorder

Run Nightwatch tests without writing a single line of code. Record your tests with Chrome DevTools test recorder and download the test script

Publish your Nightwatch HTML Report on Github Pages

Use Github to Run and publish your Nightwatch test report.

onboarding-client

Introducing Onboarding Client for Nightwatch

Set up everything to run Nightwatch tests in under 60 seconds with one command. `npm init nightwatch`. Learn how to quickly set up the config, and automatically install the webdrivers and the required packages.

Cucumber

Running Cucumber tests with Nightwatch

Install Nightwatch, cucumber and the driver for the browser. Set cucumber as the test_runner. Watch your tests run

Nightwatch 2.0

Introducing Component Testing in Nightwatch

Component Testing for React and Vue apps is available in Nightwatch 2, using the Vite dev server.

BrowerStack

Nightwatch has joined the BrowserStack family

I am happy to announce that Nightwatch.js is now officially a part of BrowserStack. As an open-source project, this means that its development is now a lot more secure, and its future is in excellent hands. BrowserStack has proven itself as the leading cloud infrastructure provider for both live

BrowerStack

Nightwatch 2.0 Webinar at BrowserStack on December 14th

We're delighted to announce that BrowserStack is hosting a Nightwatch focused webinar on December 14th. Selenium committer David Burns will be experimenting with a few of the new features in Nightwatch 2 and so this is a great opportunity to check out the new version. David heads the Open-source Program

Selenium Grid

Cross-browser Testing at Scale with Nightwatch and Selenium Grid

Developing a good web application means it is usable, fully functional, and compatible. Rigorous end-to-end testing ensures rolling out a stable web application. Testing across all possible browsers guarantees a great user experience. Nightwatch is an end-to-end automated testing solution for web applications. Developers and test engineers can write tests

User Survey

Insights from the Nightwatch 2021 User Survey

A few months ago when we announced that we’re working on Nightwatch v2, we also sent out a short survey to help us gather more feedback from the community about the kind of features we should build. Now that the v2 is available in beta we are also excited

Nightwatch 2.0

Nightwatch v2 is Now in Beta

We're finally ready to announce the first beta release for Nightwatch v2.0. Upcoming beta releases will incrementally be made available in NPM under the next tag, so in order to install it you'll have to run the following: npm i nightwatch@nextOver the coming weeks we will also finish

Nightwatch 2.0

Nightwatch v2.0-alpha is Released

We're delighted to announce that the next major version of Nightwatch is available in NPM as an alpha pre-release. It contains a wide range of new features and improvements for writing and running tests as well as full cross-browser testing support for W3C WebDriver compliant browsers. The underlying architecture has