What is the reason for Nightwatch running each .js file as a Child process? Could it be due to alterations in the configuration settings

Recently, I've been experiencing an issue when running Nightwatch.js where my console is spawning child processes for every .js file in each folder and subfolder. Multiple Chrome instances are opening along with them and even the module folders with require JS libraries. I suspect I may have missed some configuration settings.

All I want is to run the main Nightwatch js file with just one instance of Chrome.

Upon checking my console, it displays "Starting.."

nightwatch bot.js -c config_chrome.json

Child process started for: tests/extra/assertions/customAssertion Child process started for: tests/extra/commands/customCommand

tests/extra/assertions/customAssertion has finished.

tests/extra/commands/customCommand has finished.

Child process started for: tests/extra/commands/customCommandConstructor Child process started for: tests/extra/commands/other/otherCommand

tests/extra/commands/customCommandConstructor has finished.

Child process started for: tests/extra/globals

tests/extra/globals has finished.

Child process started for: tests/extra/otherPageobjects/otherPage

tests/extra/otherPageobjects/otherPage has finished.

Child process started for: tests/extra/pageobjects/SimplePageFn

tests/extra/pageobjects/SimplePageFn has finished.

Child process started for: tests/extra/pageobjects/invalidPageObj

tests/extra/commands/other/otherCommand has finished.

Child process started for: tests/extra/pageobjects/simplePageObj

tests/extra/pageobjects/invalidPageObj has finished.

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Answer №1

Ooops, I totally blanked on adding the --test parameter to the console command! :)

Answer №2

There is a particular configuration setting that may result in this type of behavior.

If you have enabled the "test_workers": true option in your nightwatch.conf.js file, all of your tests will be executed in parallel. This will spawn separate child processes for each file in the directory where the nightwatch testing framework runs its tests.

For more information, please refer to the documentation located here:
https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch-docs/blob/master/guide/running-tests/run-parallel.md

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