What’s new in Nightwatch: January 2023
Latest updates, features and releases in the month from January 2023
Welcome to the fifth post in a monthly series that summarises the happenings in the world of Nightwatch and helps you test better.
NEW FEATURES AND RELEASES
In January we’ve been working on a number of small patch releases and not working to release any new core features… those will be coming out when we release NightwatchJS V3 soon.
In the meantime check out our release notes to see what we have shipped!
Performance
One of the major bits of work we’re currently working on is improving the time it takes to run tests. We have a few experiments that we are running with members of our Discord. If you would like to try them out too do come to join the discussion.
Runnable examples on the website
We have been experimenting with some new ways for people to see the APIs in action using StackBlitz. We are trying to have these examples as a runnable playground. This will allow you to see how things work and run. If you like what you see or have suggestions on how we can improve things please reach out to David Burns on Discord.
Finally…
We have done a number of significant updates and releases across the various projects we manage. Make sure you update to the latest versions! We have a number of great features coming over the next month.
Tell us your suggestions on Github or if you want to discuss something with us or have ideas to improve this post, hit us up on Discord. P.s. If you become our 300, 400, 500, and so on, member on Discord, we’ll send you a small gift!
Check out more updates in our release notes.
P.S Selenium Conference is coming
In March, the global Selenium community will be meeting up for the first in-person SeleniumConf since 2018. Come join David Burns, Simon Stewart, Diego Molina and other Selenium core committers, as well as automated testing experts from around the world, as we discuss what’s new and coming in Selenium, the WebDriver ecosystem, BiDi functionality, state model-based testing and much more. The conference will be March 29-30, with optional full-day workshop sessions on March 28, in Chicago, IL USA. You can see the full agenda here. Ticket prices are already community-friendly, but use this discount code — `nightwatch2023seconf200` — to save an additional $200 on any ticket, conference-only or conference+workshop. Register here
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