Release notes

What's Changed

• Fixes/3612 add session name to browserstack transport by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3632
• Allow to use any browser with BrowserStack and Appium. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3634
• Selector Playground / Nightwatch Inspector Extension by @harshit-bs in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3609
• Features/use worker threads by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3592
• Bump Selenium Version to 4.8.0 by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3586

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.16...v3.0.0-alpha.2

What's Changed

No changes, just a version bump after the alpha.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.17...v2.6.18

What's Changed

• Fixed #3612 -- Add session name to Browserstack transport by @gravityvi in #3632
• Added support to use any browser with BrowserStack and Appium. by @garg3133 in #3634

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.16...v2.6.17

What's Changed

• Add 'app' in REPL context. by @garg3133 in #3607
• Fix #3466 Wait for queue traversal to begin before calling done() by @swrdfish in #3490
• removed boxen from concurrent test runs by @qa-danny in #3616
• Update logging output to use JSON instead of Logger.inspectObject by @vaibhavsingh97 in #3619
• Add support for Appium locate strategies. by @garg3133 in #3620
• Fixes/consider test suite settings in cucumber runner by @gravityvi in #3622
• Allow multiple network mocks at the same time. by @garg3133 in #3621
• Fix analytics issue by @swrdfish in #3447
• api-docs: update registerBasicAuth by @tim-yao in #3623
• Disable parallelism when running tests on safari browser by @prudhvi22 in #3565

New Contributors

• @qa-danny made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3616

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.15...v2.6.16

• Fixed #3574 – using end_session_on_fail regression
• Fixed #3605 – when running in multiple environments, json and junit reporters generate report for only one environment

• Added global app property for using in native mobile app tests #3549
• Added support to automatically upload the native mobile app to Browserstack AppAutomate service #3573
• Added support for reading named exports from ESM files 2498fe
• Added cli argument shortcuts for browser environments (--chrome, --firefox, --safari, --edge) 4cd9a8
• Fixed visible commands for testing using Appium #3566

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.13...v2.6.14

• Fixed #3181 – waitForElementNotPresent inside section for the section element to be gone
• Fixed #3455 – CDP does not reset the connection after a test session ends

• Fixed headless mode in chrome (#3581)
• Fixed loading test files in ESM format on Windows #3585
• Fixed unhandled promise rejection for wait element commands #3570
• Added support for writing global test hooks using async/await and without a callback – 286aca

• Fixed an issue with mobile app testing with test_workers enabled https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3559

• Fixed #3473: browser not defined issue by https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3550

• Fixed issue with reporting module names for parallel runs in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3547

• Added Appium specific commands:

  • .appium.startActivity
  • .appium.getCurrentActivity
  • .appium.getCurrentPackage
  • .appium.getOrientation
  • .appium.setOrientation
  • .appium.getGeolocation
  • .appium.setGeolocation
  • .appium.pressKeyCode
  • .appium.longPressKeyCode
  • .appium.hideKeyboard
  • .appium.isKeyboardShown

• Added several improvements for running Appium from Nightwatch:

  • Full details https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3519

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.6...v2.6.7

• Fixed #3531 – cannot use axeRun in async/await format

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.5...v2.6.6

• Fixed #3422 – using .pause(0) command
• Fixed an issue with global expect() assertions bfc2be

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.4...v2.6.5

• Fixed #3538 – an issue with output logging for api testing

• Fixed #3489 lodash dependency issue on windows

• fixed an issue with .within() command for component tests
• fixed an issue with expect.element().value – updated to use the getProperty('value') command;

New features

• HTML Reporter V2 - the built-in HTML reporter for Nightwatch has been significantly upgraded and contains:
  • brand new UI with added functionality
  • support for DOM snapshots and built-in trace viewer (using the--trace cli flag)
  • integrated support for displaying reports from visual regression tests (via the official plugin @nightwatch/vrt)

Fixes & improvements

• Added global before/after test hooks for each test worker process (#3501)
• Fixed #3495 an unhandled rejection was occurring in some cases when using cucumber as a test runner
• Fixed #3451 - setGeolocation was not functional in headless mode
• Fixed #3478 - click() fails for iOS native app testing

• Added .within(<selector>) command which adds support for querying within elements

• Fixed #3478 click fix for iOS native app (#3481)
• Fixed #3387 Remove event listeners on command completion (#3416)

New features

The v2.5.2 release adds API Testing capabilities to Nightwatch with the official plugin @nightwatch/apitesting which enables:

• Perform API request testing
• Setup a mock server which enables:
  • Assert on incoming requests
  • Assert on request headers
  • Assert on post data

Other Improvements

• Added new properties to results object #3494

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