Running Nightwatch automated testing with Selenium on Windows. Quick-start setup.

1-nightwatch.md

1. Install the chromedriver package via:

npm install chromedriver --save

or install with a local binary via:

npm install chromedriver --chromedriver_filepath=C:\\YOUR_PROJECT_PATH\\chromedriver.zip

2. Install packages.

npm install

3. Create a folder "tests" and place test.js inside it.
4. Run the tests by using the command nightwatch
5. Run individual tests with the command nightwatch --test tests\\test.js --testcase demoTestGoogle

nightwatch.js

require('nightwatch/bin/runner.js');

var chromedriver = require('chromedriver');

module.exports = {
  before : function(done) {
    chromedriver.start();
  },

  after : function(done) {
	chromedriver.stop();
    done();
  }
};

nightwatch.json

{
  "src_folders" : ["tests"],
  "output_folder" : "reports",
  "custom_commands_path" : "node_modules/nightwatch-custom-commands-assertions/js/commands",
  "custom_assertions_path" : "node_modules/nightwatch-custom-commands-assertions/js/assertions",
  "page_objects_path" : "",
  "globals_path" : "./nightwatch.js",
  "selenium" : {
    "start_process" : false,
    "log_path" : "reports"
  },
  "live_output": true,
  "test_settings" : {
    "default" : {
      "selenium_port"  : 9515,
      "selenium_host"  : "localhost",
      "default_path_prefix" : "",
      "screenshots" : {
        "enabled" : true,
        "path" : "reports/error-screenshots"
      },
      "desiredCapabilities": {
        "browserName": "chrome",
        "chromeOptions" : {
          "args" : ["--no-sandbox --disable-web-security --user-data-dir"]
        },
        "javascriptEnabled" : true,
        "acceptSslCerts": true
      }
    }
  }
}

package.json

{
  "name": "nightwatch-test",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "Quick start with Nightwatch and Selenium.",
  "dependencies": {
    "chromedriver": "^2.31.0",
    "nightwatch": "*",
    "nightwatch-custom-commands-assertions": "^1.1.0",
    "selenium-webdriver": "^3.5.0"
  }
}

test.js

module.exports = {
  'demoTestGoogle' : function (browser) {
    browser
      .url('http://www.google.com')
      .waitForElementVisible('body', 1000)
      .setValue('input[type=text]', 'nightwatch')
      .waitForElementVisible('button[name=btnG]', 1000)
      .click('button[name=btnG]')
      .pause(1000)
      .assert.containsText('#main', 'Night Watch')
      .end();
  }
};