Nightwatch is an automated testing framework for web applications and websites, written in Node.js and using the W3C WebDriver API (formerly Selenium WebDriver. It is a complete browser (End-to-End) testing solution which aims to simplify the process of setting up Continuous Integration and writing automated tests.

BrowserStack is a cloud web and mobile testing platform that enables developers to test their websites and mobile applications across on-demand browsers, operating systems and real mobile devices, without requiring users to install or maintain an internal lab of virtual machines, devices or emulators.

This is a sample nightwatch project to run your functional tests programmatically on your local and also on cloud platform using BrowserStack.

• Install node via brew install node Or download Node.js

• Do git clone https://github.com/NageshJoy007/nightwatch-browserstack.git

• To download required node_modules specified in package.json npm install

Go into project folder and run below commands:

1. To run tests using scripts in package.json

   nightwatch -e chrome --reporter html-reporter.js

2. You can pass different nightwatch configurations/test settings to your tests run time from cli

   nightwatch -c ./conf/local.conf.js -e chrome --reporter html-reporter.js

3. To run your tests using BrowserStack - Nightwatch Integration with BrowserStack

   • Get your browserstack account license for automation

   • Export the environment variables for the Username and Access Key of your BrowserStack account

     export BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME=<browserstack-username> &&
     export BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY=<browserstack-access-key>
     

   • Or Update browserstack.conf.js.conf.js files inside the conf/ directory with your browserstack-username and browserstack-access-key.

   nightwatch -c ./conf/browserstack.conf.js -e chrome --reporter html-reporter.js Or npm run test-bs-chrome

* Reports will generate under tests_output folder.