Seems there are a variety of ways to do automated functional testing. This is the result of some research I have done to determine which is best for my projects.
My goal is to do a small set of tests using each combination of projects and see what is good and bad about each. So far the tests consist of:
- Navigating to http://cnn.com and validating that the "Home" navigation item is on the page.
| Project | Code Repository | Homepage |
|---|---|---|
| Selenium | https://code.google.com/p/selenium/ | http://docs.seleniumhq.org/ |
| PhantomJS | https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/ | http://phantomjs.org/ |
| CasperJS | https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs | http://casperjs.org/ |
| Mocha | https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha | http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/ |
| Chai | https://github.com/chaijs/chai | http://chaijs.com/ |
| Arrow | https://github.com/yahoo/arrow | |
| Nightwatch.js | https://github.com/beatfactor/nightwatch | http://nightwatchjs.org/ |
| Nodeunit | https://github.com/caolan/nodeunit | |
| WebdriverJS (Node) | https://github.com/Camme/webdriverjs |
None of the technologies above are really standalone. All of these things work together in various ways.
- Mocha - Chai - WebdriverJS (Node) - Selenium - Working Example
- Mocha - Chai - Arrow - Selenium
- Mocha - Chai - Arrow - PhantomJS
- Mocha - Chai - Other?
- PhantomJS - CasperJS
- Nightwatch - Nodeunit - Selenium
-
Automated Functional Testing with JavaScript Using Mocha and Selenium - Part 1 - Part 2
-
A more up-to-date version of the example in the previous article - https://github.com/leutloff/selenium-example
-
Loads of good examples in the WebdriverJS repository - https://github.com/camme/webdriverjs
-
node-saucelabs documentation - https://github.com/holidayextras/node-saucelabs
-
SauceLabs Docs - https://saucelabs.com/docs/additional-config