UI Testing as smooth as butter

HāveSuite (derived from the word behave /bəˈhāv/) is a Mocha-based, Selenium powered, Node.js automated UI Testing framework designed with a focus on simplicity with complex tasks. It aims to provide a simple interface for achieving and maintaining complex test cases.

Getting Started

Start by installing HāveSuite as a global module:

npm install -g havesuite

This will allow you to use the havesuite command-line tool for launching and parallelizing* tests cases.

Create a havesuite.json file

havesuite command-line tool will look for a havesuite.json file for configuration to begin a test suite.

Start by creating a folder for your test cases and adding json file inside:

mkdir ./UITests/
cd ./UITests/
touch havesuite.json

add src property to point to the source files of your tests. Note that this supports glob patterns:

{
  "name": "SampleUITests",
  "src": [
    "./testcases/*/*.js"
  ]
}

and adding Selenium or Selenium Grid configuration for remote execution to havesuite.json:

{
  ...
  "capabilities": {
    "browserName": "chrome",
    "platform": "MAC",
    "version": "latest"
  },
  "remote": "<URL_TO_SELENIUM_GRID_INCLUDING_USER_AND_PASS>"
}

note that you can use the es6 template pattern ${some_key} to access environment variables, this is useful for writing JSON configuration without exposing private key and password information. In the end you should end up with a file like the following:

{
  "name": "SampleUITests",
  "src": [
    "./testcases/*/*.js"
  ],
  "capabilities": {
    "browserName": "chrome",
    "platform": "MAC",
    "version": "latest"
  },
  "reporter": "list",
  "interface": "bdd",
  "remote": "http://${MY_KEY}:${MY_PRIVATE}@hub.example.com/wd/hub"
}

Creating a page object

A page object is necessary to start a test-case. A HāveSuite page object is a simple object returned by module.exports that does not get included in src property of havesuite.json but rather required by individual test-cases and opened in the Client/Browser. The URL for a page is set as either a string or function to the url property. (e.g. ./testcases/first/page/firstPage.js)

module.exports = {
  url: function () {
    return "http://www.google.com";
  }
}

Writing Test-cases

Currently HāveSuite only supports BDD style tests using Mocha.

HāveSuite adds a simple wrapper around the test functions known as sync() in order to convert all async calls into Fibers. This is especially important for keeping test code clean. You can begin writing your first test-case by adding a file matching the src property in havesuite.json. (e.g. ./testcases/first/first.js)

const page = require('./page/firstPage');

describe("Example Test Suite", function () {
  this.timeout(30000); // Set timeout of all test cases to 30 seconds

  before(sync(function () { // Note that functions are wrapped around sync()
    client.loadPage(page); // Load page (google.com)
  }));

  it("should include google in the page title", sync(function () {
    client.page.title().should.include("Google");
  }));

  it("should log all link texts from page", sync(function () {
    let texts = client.page.find('._Gs').map((el) => el.text());
    texts.should.include('Privacy');
    texts.should.not.include('someUnknownElementToHaveSuite');
  }));

  it("should fill searchbox", sync(function () {
    client.page.find('#lst-ib').type('behave');
    client.page.find('#lst-ib')[0].getValue().should.equal('behave');
  }));

});

API

extends WD.js https://github.com/admc/wd/blob/master/doc/api.md