In the past we encountered a lot of issues with the architecture of Sakuli. But first and foremost the inactive development of Sahi and its deep integration into Sakuli was one of the main reasons to rethink our technology stack.

So we decide to create a brandnew platform which allows users to test and monitor their systems and developers to extend the platform to their own needs.

We started to make a complete core code rewrite based on NodeJs and Typescript.

• Node.js because we wanted the same language for our platform and testcases (Sakuli was written in Java while testcases where executed in a modified version of RhinoJs-Engine)
• Typescript to provide clear interfaces for third-party devs.

We also replaced the engines for web- and native checks:

• Sahi is replaced by Webdriver / Selenium
• Sikuli is replaced by nut.js

while we try our best to keep the sakuli api backwards compatible.

Expect the full power of Sakuli, which means testing and monitoring systems either in web or native.

Use the full power of typescript, nodejs and their corresponding ecosystems.

Please refer to the Sakuli website and the Getting Started guide for installation instructions.

To start developing Sakuli 2 some setup on your workstation is required.

• Make sure to have docker installed and started
• Make sure to execute docker pull selenium/standalone-chrome-debug before you start developing.

Long story short: npm run update

As this is a multi module project using lerna, dependency updates have to be consistent for the whole project. To achieve this, we use the lerna-update-wizard and added the npm script npm run update.