smoothtest 0.3.6
General purpose Testing Utilities and also special testing tools for for Web Applications
License: MIT
Keywords: testing,automation,web,unittest

SmoothTest
==========

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General purpose Testing Utilities and also special testing tools for Web
Applications

Better API for accessing Selenium
---------------------------------

With smoothtest you can write nicer tests for web sites.

.. code:: python

    class SearchEnginesDemo(unittest.TestCase):
        def setUp(self):
            # We need to enter "single test level" of life for each test
            # It will initialize the webdriver if no webdriver is present from upper levels
            self._level_mngr = WebdriverManager().enter_level(level=SINGLE_TEST_LIFE)
            # Get Xpath browser
            self.browser = self._level_mngr.get_xpathbrowser(name=__name__)

        def tearDown(self):
            # Make sure we quit those webdrivers created in this specific level of life
            self._level_mngr.exit_level()

        def test_duckduckgo(self):
            # Load a local page for the demo
            self.browser.get_url('https://duckduckgo.com/')
            # Type smoothtest and press enter
            self.browser.fill(".//*[@id='search_form_input_homepage']", 'smoothtest\n')
            result_link = './/a[@title="smoothtest "]'
            # Wait for the result to be available
            self.browser.wait_condition(lambda brw: brw.select_xpath(result_link))
            # Click on result
            self.browser.click(result_link)
            # First result should point to github
            expected_url = 'https://github.com/joaduo/smoothtest'
            wait_url = lambda brw: brw.current_url() == expected_url
            # Make sure we end up in the right url
            self.assertTrue(self.browser.wait_condition(wait_url))

The API is very XPath oriented, so you can test your XPath with
Firefox's extensions like FirePath.

How to use smoothtest
---------------------

The main utility is the ``smoothtest`` command. This command monitors
your project's files and your unittest files for changes, it will
trigger reloading and rerunning tests when a file changes. This means
you can work in your code and see how tests are affected automatically.
You can select a group of tests files to be monitored - that trigger
partial reloads of those same modules - and an group of files or
directories to trigger full reloads of the project.

It also provides a ipython UI interface to modify certain values and
re-test.

Do

::

    smoothtest

To enter the Ipython UI without specifying any initial test.

If you want to start with a specific test, run this to get possible
arguments.

::

    smoothtest --help

Inside Ipython you have commands:

::

    %smoothtest
    %test
    %reset
    %test_config
    %get
    %chrome
    %firefox
    %phantonjs
    %steal_xpathbrowser

Where ``%smoothtest`` has same parameters as the ``smoothtest`` command
but adds ``-u`` for updating test parameters and ``-f`` for forcing a
reloading.

``smoothtest`` command is still in beta stage, so some functionality
won't be as reliable as expected. (but still useful for developing
tests) You may need to restart the ``smoothtest`` command from time to
time.

Configuration
-------------

You will need a ``smoothtest_settings.py`` in your ``PYTHONPATH`` that
looks like this:

::

    from smoothtest.settings.default import DefaultSettings
    import logging

    class Settings(DefaultSettings):
        web_server_url = 'http://localhost:8011/'

        webdriver_browser = 'Firefox' #'Chrome' 'PhantomJS'
        ...

Installing
----------

You can use pip to install it:

::

    pip install smoothtest 

Or uninstall it:

::

    pip uninstall smoothtest 

Installing virtual screen dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In ubuntu you may need to install

::

    sudo apt-get install xserver-xephyr xvfb

Windows and Mac OSX
-------------------

Windows
~~~~~~~

On windows, the ``smoothtest`` shell does not work (due to partial
support of unix's fork()) , although running test cases directly will
work.

Mac OSX
~~~~~~~

Inside Mac OS fork() should work, although I haven't had the chance to
test it there. Let me know if you do.

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