Update nightwatch to the latest version 🚀

Version 1.0.1 of nightwatch was just published.

Dependency	nightwatch
Current Version	0.9.20
Type	devDependency

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Release Notes

v1.0.1

A significant update from previous 0.x versions featuring a complete rewrite of the entire codebase and also including some new features. The main focus has been on improving the underlying architecture, therefore this release includes mostly fixes and improvements, but also a few brand new features. Please see the upgrade guide for details on breaking changes and how to migrate from v0.9.

WebDriver Integration

ChromeDriver and GeckoDriver Integration - Nightwatch now manages ChromeDriver and GeckoDriver processes directly, similarly to the Selenium Server is managed. The webdriver configuration settings may be used to control this behaviour, e.g.:

"webdriver" : {
  "start_process": true,
  "server_path": "./path/to/chromedriver"
}

For a complete list of available config settings (until the docs get updated on the website), refer to the default settings.

It's important to note that, while the Selenium Server was required with older Nightwatch versions (v0.9 and prior) and continues to work with v1.0, starting with version 1.0 Selenium is completely optional and only required in a Selenium Grid environment.

Page Objects Improvements

object-based element selectors optional, object-based selector values in commands - see #1156
index property to element objects - allows the option of specifying an index property in element objects for pages or element commands - see #1115

New Mocha Implementation

For cases when Mocha is used as a test runner, a new adapter has been introduced in place of the mocha-nightwatch package. This is however in experimental stages.

New programatic API

There has been some demand for a proper programatic API, through which Nightwatch may be used without a configuration file. Nightwatch exports now a new runTests() public method which may be used for such purposes.

The settings object inherits from the default settings mentioned above.

const Nightwatch = require('nightwatch');

Nightwatch.runTests('/path/to/tests_folder', {
  // various settings
}).then(function() {
  // Tests finished
}).catch(function(err) {
  // An error occurred
});

The programatic API is being used extensively in the unit/integration tests, e.g. in test/src/runner/testRunTestsuite.js

Other Fixes and Improvements:

concurrency - improved support for running tests in parallel using test workers and test environements;
test hooks - fixed a number of bugs related to test and global hooks;
retries - better support for test case and test suite retries;
error handling - improved error handling support which should help with identifying problems inside tests.
filters - improved support for using filter and exclude properties.

This release also paves the way for our own upcoming, Nightwatch dedicated, cloud testing service - NightCloud.io.

Known Issues and Limitations

running in parallel (e.g. with test workers) is not yet available when using GeckoDriver directly, however it is OK for when using Selenium and GeckoDriver combined;
socket hang up error while running ChromeDriver, managed by Nightwatch - occasionally ChromeDriver will abort the connection with this error and the process might be left hanging. A possible workaround might be specifying the --no-sandbox cli argument to ChromeDriver, like so:

"desiredCapabilities" : {
  "browserName" : "chrome",
  "chromeOptions": {
    "args" : ["--no-sandbox"]
   }
}

GeckoDriver is not yet feature complete regarding WebDriver API support and thus may not be on par with ChromeDriver regarding commands support;
Other driver implementations, such as Safari or Edge, have not yet been properly tested, nor integration with cloud testing providers, like BrowserStack or SauceLabs.

Commits

The new version differs by 83 commits.

1aed088 1.0.1
e655f3f fixed a linting issue
ce060c8 1.0.0
7f56772 updated readme
e8b1784 updated travis build file to use eslint
3b31c6c Updated readme and sample config file
49e5bf3 Merge branch 'features/release-1.0'
27eb4c0 added new programatic api runTests and updated some of the integration tests
20a413e partial refactoring of several unit tests
c0cf06c updated more test runner tests
9984440 partial refactoring of several unit tests
2dfb492 updated protocol actions and fixed several other issues
97ffcff partial refactoring of unit tests
bdd93fd partial refactoring of several unit tests
7c15dd7 partial refactoring of unit tests

There are 83 commits in total.

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