Overview

Nightwatch has a default configuration object with pre-defined values. These values can be overwritten as needed.

Settings


const filename_format = function ({testSuite = '', testCase = '', isError = false, dateObject = new Date()} = {}) {
  const fileName = [];
  const dateParts = dateObject.toString().replace(/:/g, '').split(' ');
  dateParts.shift();
  
const dateStamp = dateParts.slice(0, 5).join('-'); if (testSuite) { fileName.push(testSuite); } if (testCase) { fileName.push(testCase); }
return `${fileName.join('/')}${isError ? '_ERROR' : '_FAILED'}_${dateStamp}.png`; };
module.exports = { // Location(s) where custom commands will be loaded from. custom_commands_path: null,
// Location(s) where custom assertions will be loaded from. custom_assertions_path: null,
// Location(s) where page object files will be loaded from. page_objects_path: null,
// Location of an external globals module which will be loaded and made available to the test as a // property globals on the main client instance. globals_path: null,
// An object which will be made available on the main test api, throughout the test execution globals: {
// this controls whether to abort the test execution when an assertion failed and skip the rest // it's being used in waitFor commands and expect assertions abortOnAssertionFailure: true,
// this controls whether to abort the test execution when an element cannot be located; an error // is logged in all cases, but this also enables skipping the rest of the testcase; // it's being used in element commands such as .click() or .getText() abortOnElementLocateError: false,
// this will overwrite the default polling interval (currently 500ms) for waitFor commands // and expect assertions that use retry waitForConditionPollInterval: 500,
// default timeout value in milliseconds for waitFor commands and implicit waitFor value for // expect assertions waitForConditionTimeout: 5000,
// this will cause waitFor commands on elements to throw an error if multiple // elements are found using the given locate strategy and selector throwOnMultipleElementsReturned: false,
// By default a warning is printed if multiple elements are found using the given locate strategy // and selector; set this to true to suppress those warnings suppressWarningsOnMultipleElementsReturned: false,
// controls the timeout value for async hooks. Expects the done() callback to be invoked within this time // or an error is thrown asyncHookTimeout: 10000,
// controls the timeout value for when running async unit tests. Expects the done() callback to be invoked within this time // or an error is thrown unitTestsTimeout: 2000,
// controls the timeout value for when executing the global async reporter. Expects the done() callback to be invoked within this time // or an error is thrown customReporterCallbackTimeout: 20000,
// Automatically retrying failed assertions - You can tell Nightwatch to automatically retry failed assertions until a given timeout is reached, before the test runner gives up and fails the test. retryAssertionTimeout: 5000,
reporter: function(results, cb) {cb(results)} },
// configuration settings for the dotenv module - a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. More details on https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv dotenv: {},
// persist the same globals object between runs or have a (deep) copy of it per each test; // this can be useful when persisting data between test suites is needed, such as a cookie or session information persist_globals: false,
// The location where the JUnit XML report files will be saved. Set this to false if you want to disable XML reporting output_folder: 'tests_output',
// A string or array of folders (excluding subfolders) where the tests are located. src_folders: null,
// Used when running in parallel to determine if the output should be collected and displayed at the end. live_output: false,
// disable support of loading of typescript files for backwards compatibility with test suites disable_typescript: false,
// Used to disable colored output in the terminal. disable_colors: false,
// Used when running in parallel to specify the delay (in milliseconds) between starting the child processes parallel_process_delay: 10,
// An object containing Selenium Server related configuration options selenium: { start_process: false, cli_args: {}, server_path: null, log_path: '', port: undefined, check_process_delay: 500, max_status_poll_tries: 15, status_poll_interval: 200 },
// Whether or not to automatically start the Selenium/WebDriver session. If running unit tests, this should be set tot false. start_session: true,
// End the session automatically when the test is being terminated, usually after a failed assertion. end_session_on_fail: true,
// Skip the remaining test cases from the current test suite, when one test case fails. skip_testcases_on_fail: undefined,
// Whether or not to run individual test files in parallel. test_workers: false,
`/*` test_workers: { enabled: true,
// automatically compute the number of workers based on CPU cores workers: 'auto',
// manually specify the number of workers workers: 4,
// pass node arguments to individual workers (all of the process.execArgv) node_options: 'auto',
// selectively pass node arguments to individual worker processes node_options: ['--inspect'] }, `*/`
// Specifies which test runner to use: default|mocha test_runner: 'default',
// Defines options used to connect to the WebDriver/Selenium server webdriver: { start_process: false, cli_args: {}, server_path: null, log_path: '', use_legacy_jsonwire: undefined,
// Time to wait (in ms) before starting to check the Webdriver server is up and running check_process_delay: 100,
// Maximum number of ping status check attempts before returning a timeout error max_status_poll_tries: 10,
// Interval (in ms) to use between status ping checks when checking if the Webdriver server is up and running status_poll_interval: 200,
// The entire time (in ms) to wait for the Node.js process to be created and running (default is 2 min), including spawning the child process and checking the status process_create_timeout: 120000, host: undefined, port: undefined, ssl: undefined, proxy: undefined, timeout_options: { timeout: undefined, retry_attempts: undefined }, default_path_prefix: undefined, username: undefined, access_key: undefined },
test_settings: { },
// A url which can be used later in the tests as the main url to load. launch_url: '',
// set to false if you want to show the extended http traffic command logs from the WebDriver server. silent: true,
// Used to disable terminal output completely. output: true,
// Set this to false if you'd like to only see the test case name displayed and pass/fail status. detailed_output: true,
// Set this to true if you'd like to see timestamps next to the logging output output_timestamp: false,
// Set this to iso if you'd like to see timestamps as ISO strings timestamp_format: '',
// Set this to true if you'd like to not display errors during the execution of the test (they are shown at the end always). disable_error_log: false,
// By default, API command errors that don't deal with DOM elements (e.g. cookie) are ignored, unless they are thrown by Node.js (e.g. ECONNRESET errors) report_command_errors: false,
// Take error and failure screenshots during test execution screenshots: { enabled: false, filename_format, path: '', on_error: true, on_failure: true },
// Used to enable showing the Base64 image data in the (verbose) log when taking screenshots. log_screenshot_data: false,
desiredCapabilities: { browserName: 'firefox' },
// An array of folders or file patterns to be skipped (relative to the main source folder). exclude: null,
// Folder or file pattern to be used when loading the tests. Files that don't match this pattern will be ignored. filter: null,
// Skip a group of tests (a subfolder); can be a list of comma-separated values (no space) skipgroup: '',
sync_test_names: true,
// Skip tests by tag name; can be a list of comma-separated values (no space) skiptags: '',
// Use xpath as the default locator strategy use_xpath: false,
parallel_mode: false,
report_prefix: '',
unit_tests_mode: false,
default_reporter: 'junit',
// In Nightwatch v1.x, when used with "await" operator, API commands will return the full result object as {value: `<VALUE>`} // whereas in v2, the value is return directly; if using a callback, the behaviour remains unchanged backwards_compatibility_mode: false,
// disable the global apis like "browser", "element()", "expect()"; this might be needed if using Nightwatch with third-party libraries disable_global_apis: false,
// enable aborting the test run execution when the first test failure occurs; the remaining test suites will be skipped enable_fail_fast: false }