Why doesn't nightwatch pickup my browser configuration - nightwatch.js

Question

I am using nightwatch for testing a web site. Below is my configuration file. I want to use phantomjs as the browser so it can be run without open a browser. But when I run the tests with nightwatch -c integration-tests/nightwatch.json command, it always open my chrome browser. And I tried to modify the value for browserName and found out that whatever I put in doesn't have any effect. Is there anything wrong with my configuration?
{
"src_folders": [
"./integration-tests/tests"
],
"output_folder": "./integration-tests/reports",
"custom_commands_path": "",
"custom_assertions_path": "",
"page_objects_path": "",
"globals_path": "",
"selenium": {
"start_process": false
},
"test_settings": {
"default": {
"launch_url": "http://localhost:9091",
"selenium_port": 9515,
"selenium_host": "localhost",
"default_path_prefix": "",
"silent": true,
"screenshots": {
"enabled": false,
"path": ""
},
"desiredCapabilities": {
"browserName": "phantomjs",
"javascriptEnabled" : true,
"phantomjs.binary.path" :"node_modules/phantomjs",
"phantomjs.cli.args" : []
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

You need to change the userAgent that PhantomJS was reporting.
{
"src_folders": [
"./integration-tests/tests"
],
"output_folder": "./integration-tests/reports",
"custom_commands_path": "",
"custom_assertions_path": "",
"page_objects_path": "",
"globals_path": "",
"selenium": {
"start_process": false
},
"test_settings": {
"default": {
"launch_url": "http://localhost:9091",
"selenium_port": 9515,
"selenium_host": "localhost",
"default_path_prefix": "",
"silent": true,
"screenshots": {
"enabled": false,
"path": ""
},
"desiredCapabilities": {
"browserName": "phantomjs",
"javascriptEnabled" : true,
"phantomjs.binary.path" :"node_modules/phantomjs",
"phantomjs.cli.args" : [],
"phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.80 Safari/537.36"
}
}
}
}
settings {object}
userAgent defines the user agent sent to server when the web page requests resources.
Source: http://phantomjs.org/api/webpage/property/settings.html
If you need more examples:
// Mac Chrome 46
"phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.80 Safari/537.36"
// Windows Chrome 46
"phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.80 Safari/537.36"
// Mac Firefox 42.0
"phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0"
// Windows Firefox 42.0
"phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0"
// PhantomJS 2.0
"phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) PhantomJS/2.0.0 Safari/538.1"