What's New in NightwatchJS - November Edition

Latest updates, features and releases

Welcome to the eleventh post in a monthly series that summarises the happenings in the world of Nightwatch and helps you test better.

NEW FEATURES AND RELEASES

The NightwatchJS team has started work on planning its future roadmap so there aren’t a lot of new features as we work towards that, however…

NightwatchJS V3.3.0

We have released a new version of NightwatchJS that improves parallelism in a number of different scenarios. On top of the main item below, there are a few more items we have done and documented on our releases page.

Parallelism

Parallelism has always been the most important feature, except for using real browsers. We have removed some limits around running tests in parallel for desktops. You can now have a larger upper limit than cores. This can lead to some slowdowns on your machine but you should be able to do more, especially against cloud providers.

We have also removed some limitations for mobile devices in parallel. The device might still limit you but should be able to run tests more in parallel, especially on cloud providers. Again, be aware that if you try to do too many things in parallel it can affect the performance of your machine

YouTube

As well as working on NighwatchJS we have been adding more videos to our YouTube Channel. In the last month, we have released the following videos:

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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. 

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Check out more updates in our release notes.