Nightwatch
No-compromise test automation framework for web and native mobile applications.

Nightwatch is an open-source, Node.js-powered end-to-end testing framework that supports real desktop browsers, mobile web, and native iOS/Android apps via W3C WebDriver. It offers built-in parallelization, cloud grid support (e.g., BrowserStack), a REPL debugger, and an HTML reporter. Maintained by BrowserStack, it is trusted by over 100,000 repositories for test automation.
Nightwatch uses W3C WebDriver to run tests against real browsers and mobile devices, with built-in parallelization, cloud grid integration, and debugging tools accessible via a CLI and REPL interface.
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Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- BrowserStack
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