+ - the second value represents the sum of Open Issues ( open label ) & Stale Issues ( stale label, 238 of them ). Selenium - Web Browser Automation. How can a natural process create a perfect geometric shape as the most prominent feature of a planet? Hi, It's appreciable to choose Selenium. But enough proselytizing, you can find out what you need about Saucelabs here: How to avoid altitude sickness in medieval age? If you dont have Node.js yet, need to get it. Because this is purely async, you may have headaches tracing the exact origin of the failure. So you need to find Selenium server 3.9.1 and download it. The ❖ NightwatchJS example: (tests a Google search for Rembrandt), ❖ WebdriverIO example: (tests a DuckDuckGo search for WebdriverIO). @QualiT I ended up with WebdriverIO and it resulted in a pretty sweet custom reporter that records videos of failed tests. Check it out! According to the official site main advantages of Nightwatch.JS is:eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'softwaretestingmaterial_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_6',647,'0','0']));eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'softwaretestingmaterial_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_7',647,'0','1']));eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'softwaretestingmaterial_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_8',647,'0','2'])); To install Nightwatch, you need npm. In addition to working very well with desktop browsers, it integrates well with Appium, Android Studio, and Xcode so you can run your automated tests on Android emulators and iOS simulators locally. Check it out! This offers immense flexibility, off the bat, letting you choose the way in which you ❖ page.js (this is your page-object base). has a bigger community of maintainers. Only then can you have a complete outlook on the entire tableau. WebdriverIO is custom implementation of W3C webdriver JSON wire protocol. @iamdanchiv, I have to say I am surprised that you picked on the Carbon ads, which generate less than $100 per month. I don't want it to dictate the wrong direction! Let me say that a different way: The current versions are nightwatch 1.3.6, phantomjs 2.1.7, protractor 7.0.0, selenium-webdriver 4.0.0-alpha.7 and webdriverio 6.1.22. has fewer open issues and fewer open pull requests.

selenium-webdriver, What is Confirmation testing in Software? Nice answer! Am I right to be frustrated that my professor does not actually teach? I'm not familiar with Nightwatch but I know that for WebdriverIO you simply have to set the browserName in the wdio.conf.js, If I understand correctly from the docs, Nightwatch can also manage the Selenium server, where WebdriverIO does not, @jrader I wasn't aware of WebdriverIO browserName in the wdio.conf.js. @andreirusu, first of all, I'm surprised you took the time to cherry pick & answer stuff you didn't agree with, also down vote. etc. selenium-webdriver is the more popular package today ➮ ( Opportunity ) The next two categories (Open Issues, Open PRs) are actually a true image of the commit-to-contributor ratio: NightwatchJS is mainly maintained by Andrei Rusu and a handful of others, while WebdriverIO stands out as a project led by main contributor Christian Bromann, and backed by a very active & effervescent community. Since there is no iterator, there is less ability to recover from failures during a test execution, this means failures are more definitive. (what do page-objects provide us with? Subscribe and get popular blog posts about software testing industry. A page object wraps an HTML page, or fragment, with an application-specific API, allowing you to manipulate page elements without digging around in the HTML. It uses the powerful Selenium WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. Nightwatch is a fairly extensive solution that uses an iterator to automatically re-try tests up to three times when they fail. There's a saying, don't reinvent the wheel, so I'm not going to. ❖ form.page.js (this is a login form page-object example): ❖ homepage.js (this is a homepage page-object example): Both NightwatchJS as well as WebdriverIO have great support in regards to documentation: ❯ WebdriverIO: Getting Started | API DOCs | Gitter Chat, ❯ NightwatchJS: Getting Started | API DOCs, ➮ ( Strength ) both projects have very clean & informative documentation to go along with great examples, ➮ ( Opportunity ) as a remark, I sometimes found myself searching for solutions to one, or more Nightwatch feature issues, or framework limitations, only to find the solution on some back-alley gist, or backwater blog.