quick-e2e-test

It allows you to build end-to-end test from scenarios expressed in natural language (text).

Built for Protractor and AngularJS.

Quick Example: test declared in input.json generates output.js file.

Index

• Why use it
• Requirements
• Installation
• Tutorial
• Current Natural Language Support
• Contributors
• License

Why use it

If you start to build a lot of end-to-end test, you will realize that:

• building end-to-end test is a boring and ripetivive task
• when the codebase becomes bigger, it can be very hard to manage end-to-end test - e.g. to understand which scenario is covered by test, or to quantify test coverage
• only developers can mainly build end-to-end test, but developers are a rare and expensive resource, and end-to-end test could be managed by other figures, e.g. other employees

quick-end-to-end test is born to solve all these problems.

Requirements

• protractor - this module generates test to run with protrator - but it can be easily extended to work with other frameworks for end-to-end testing
• nodejs
• npm

Installation

npm install -g quick-e2e-test

Tutorial

1. Create a JSON file representing the end-to-end test

Example config.json:

{
    "Login": {
        "test": [
            "before each go to '/login'",
            "when users send 'username' to '.username' and send 'password' to '.password' and click on '.submit', then url is '/welcome'"
        ]
    }
}

2. Generate end-to-end test

Run

    quick-e2e-test ./config.json

3. Use the output to run the e2e test

The file test.js containing the end-to-end test has been generated in the current folder, as follow:

/* jshint ignore: start */
'use strict';
 
describe('Login', function() {
 
    beforeEach(function() {
        browser.get('/login');
    });
 
    it("when users send 'username' to '.username' and send 'password' to '.password' and click on '.submit', then url is '/welcome'", function() {
 
        element(by.css('.username')).sendKeys('username');
        element(by.css('.password')).sendKeys('password');
        element(by.css('.submit')).click();
 
        expect(browser.getUrl())['toBe']('/welcome');
 
 
    });
 
});

Now add this file to the spec file list inside the configuration - e.g. config.js - file for protractor. And then run:

• webdriver-manager start - e.g. to start the chrome driver
• protractor config.js - to run test

That's it!

Current Natural Language Support

Each scenario can be divided into the 2 elements:

• actions: all the actions that cause the scenario - e.g. "when users go to '/login' and click on '.login'"
• post-condition: all the conditions that must be verified after all the actions has been executed

Actions

Currently, you can specify following actions:

• send to '' - to fill the identified by with
• click on '' - to click on
• mouseover '' (TODO)
• mouseout '' (TODO)

Conditions

TODO

Macros

A macro is a sequence of instructions that are assigned to a label. The macro is identified by the label.

Example

{
    "Login": {
        "macros": {
            "signin": [
                "users send 'username' to '.username'",
                "users send 'password' to '.password'",
                "users click on '.submit'"
            ]
        },
        "test": [
            "before each users go to '/login'",
            "when users signin, then url is '/product-list'"
        ]
    }
}

generates

/* jshint ignore: start */
'use strict';
 
describe('Login', function() {
    var signin;
 
    beforeEach(function() {
        browser.get('/login');
    });
 
    beforeEach(function() {
        signin = function() {
            element(by.css('.username')).sendKeys('username');
            element(by.css('.password')).sendKeys('password');
            element(by.css('.submit')).click();
        };
    });
 
    it("when users signin, then url is '/product-list'", function() {
 
        signin();
 
        expect(browser.getUrl())['toBe']('/product-list');
 
 
    });
 
});

Contributors

I am looking for contributors that share tha same problems! Fork it, or contact me.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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