Nightwatch/BrowserStack + Safari results in "timeout error"

[Kenvdb]

Description of bug / issue
Running Nightwatch with BrowserStack on Safari results in a timeout error:

  TimeoutError: timeout error
       at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)

Dev Dependencies

"nightwatch": "^1.4.3",
"browserstack-local": "^1.4.8",

Running script
nightwatch -c nightwatch.conf.js -e safari

Nightwatch config

// var browserstack = require('browserstack-local');

  nightwatch_config = {
    src_folders: ['resources/tests/e2e/specs'],
    output_folder: 'resources/tests/e2e/reports',  
    selenium : {
      "start_process" : false,
      "host" : "hub-cloud.browserstack.com",
      "port" : 80,
      "check_process_delay": 0
      // "selenium_port": 8080,
      // "selenium_host": "site.com.local",
      // "silent": true,
    },
  
    common_capabilities: {
      'build': 'nightwatch-browserstack',
      'browserstack.user': process.env.BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME,
      'browserstack.key': process.env.BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY,
      'browserstack.debug': true
    },
  
    test_settings: {
      default: {},
      chrome: {
        desiredCapabilities: {
          browserName: "chrome",
          chromeOptions : {
            // This tells Chromedriver to run using the legacy JSONWire protocol
            // More info on Chromedriver: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
            w3c: false
          }
        }
      },
      firefox: {
        desiredCapabilities: {
          browserName: "firefox"
        }
      },
      edge: {
        desiredCapabilities: {
          os: 'Windows',
          os_version: '10',
          browser: 'edge',
        },
      },
      safari: {
        desiredCapabilities:{
          "os": "OS X",
          'os_version': 'Yosemite',
          'browser': 'Safari',
          'browser_version': '8.0'
        }
      },
      ie: {
        desiredCapabilities: {
          browserName: 'IE',
          browserVersion: '11.0',
          'bstack:options' : {
            os: 'Windows',
            osVersion: '10',
            local: 'false',
            seleniumVersion: '3.5.2',
            resolution: '1366x768'
          }
        }
      }
    }
  };
  
  // Code to support common capabilites
  for(var i in nightwatch_config.test_settings){
    var config = nightwatch_config.test_settings[i];
    config['selenium_host'] = nightwatch_config.selenium.host;
    config['selenium_port'] = nightwatch_config.selenium.port;
    config['desiredCapabilities'] = config['desiredCapabilities'] || {};
    for(var j in nightwatch_config.common_capabilities){
      config['desiredCapabilities'][j] = config['desiredCapabilities'][j] || nightwatch_config.common_capabilities[j];
    }
  }
  
  module.exports = nightwatch_config;

Console Error

TEST FAILURE: 1 error during execution; 0 tests failed, 0 passed (10.873s)

 × CookieBar.test
 – Google's Search Functionality (2.135s)

  TimeoutError: timeout error
       at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)


npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 5
npm ERR! app@0.1.0 nightwatch-safari: `nightwatch -c nightwatch.conf.js -e safari`
npm ERR! Exit status 5
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the app@0.1.0 nightwatch-safari script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-10-20T09_37_56_790Z-debug.log
The terminal process "C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Command npm run nightwatch-safari" terminated with exit code: 1.

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[Kenvdb]

Can you anyone pls give me any directions how to solve this issue? Much appreciated.

[eleni-salamani]

I am having the exact same issue. Any updates/hints?

[Dharin-shah]

#2615
this should help

[Dharin-shah]

This is fixed in Nightwatch v1.6 release. Please verify @Kenvdb @eleni-salamani

[eleni-salamani]

We will be trying out the new version in the upcoming 2 weeks, so will send out an update.

[beatfactor]

Closing this as issues has been fixed, but feel free to reopen if needed.

[eleni-salamani]

Although the issue has been closed, just confirming that it has been fixed with the latest nightwatch version (1.6.3)