Nightwatch Boilerplate

Basic set up for using Nightwatch for testing use cases, integration, and client-side code.

Note

Please note this is several versions behind the original Nightwatch master branch. Needs to be udpated!

Dependencies

Please see the package.json file.

Overall we are talking about:

• npm
• node.js

NPM will install:

• selenium standalone
• phantomjs + ghostdriver for headless testing
• chromedriver for browser testing (IE/Firefox is possible as well)

Set Up

From the ./client-tests/ folder:

npm install

This will install a number of node.js modules, such as those cited above. One of the modules is a selenium-binaries that includes the Chromedriver and Selenium standalone JAR files. By default these are going into the $HOME/.selenium-binaries

Using in your project

For most projects this makes some assumptions about a global var and some addresses.

• Currently the global var is set to iso but you'd want to replace that.
• Also, urls are set in globals.js

Note about install locations

We can override the path install that writes out the binary-paths.json file by including these sorts of things in the nightwatch.js file.

var path = require('path');
var home = process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE;
process.env.SELENIUM_BINARIES_HOME = path.resolve(home, '.selenium-binaries');

Executing Tests

From the command line in the client-tests folder, run:

node nightwatch

Output, including:

• Raw console output to a file
• A selenium debug log file
• junit XML files

Will go to:

./client-tests/target/

Reference Links

Current test implementation uses Nightwatch with Phantom.js for headless testing.

Homepage:

• http://nightwatchjs.org/
• http://nightwatchjs.org/guide
• http://nightwatchjs.org/api

Support:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nightwatchjs
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nightwatch.js
• https://twitter.com/nightwatchjs

Source Code and Documentation:

• https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch
• https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch-docs