spun

Rapid Selenium Testing

spun is a command line tool that compiles spun files down to selenium code.

A spun file contains a very terse format for authoring Selenium tests. We've authored a DSL (Domain Specific Languge) that we feel handles most use cases. The language of spun looks like this:

get "https://google.com"
type "query" in "[name=q]"
click "a"
quit

Contents

• Why the name?
• Example spun file
• How does it work?
• CLI

Webster:

  past or present of spin.

Not very cool.

Urban:

  1. A state of mind that exists because of using an amphetamine for a prolonged amount of time through repeated ingestion.
  2. To be under the influence of almost any stimulant, such as meth, straight speed...

  Usage: "Man I'm spun out on crack..."

Not very cool either.

A goole search for selenium definition resulted in this:

  the chemical element of atomic number 34, a gray crystalline nonmetal with semiconducting properties.

Hmm, a chemical element. Eureka! spun let's you get spun out on selenium!

Still not very cool ;)

Run spun -h for usage.

spun relies on strategy providers to convert a spun file down to a languge. The output may be anything from node to java to ruby.

spun will search package.json for the first dependency prefixed with spun-. Because a strategy provider is likely to include spun-util, spun-util is ignored in this search.

spun also assumes that by default your language compiles down to node. By default spun will attempt to run the results using node. You an override this behavior using the options.

The default provider is spun-selenium-webdriver

##LICENSE

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Copyright (c) 2014 Joseph Spencer

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