Headless Testing

One major use case of PhantomJS is headless testing of web applications. It is suitable for general command-line based testing, within a precommit hook, and as part as a continuous integration system.

Test Frameworks

PhantomJS itself is not a test framework, it is only used to launch the tests via a suitable test runner.

The following test frameworks have built-in support for PhantomJS.

• Buster.JS
• FuncUnit
• Hiro
• QUnit

For other test frameworks, various test runners/drivers are usually available:

• Capybara: Poltergeist
• Mocha: mocha-phantomjs
• Jasmine: grunt-jasmine-runner, guard-jasmine, phantom-jasmine
• Robot Framework: phantomrobot
• WebDriver: GhostDriver
• YUITest: Grover, phantomjs-yuitest

In addition, there are projects which are built on top of PhantomJS to provide convenient high-level functionality for testing purposes:

• Casper.js is useful to build scripted navigation and testing
• Lotte adds jQuery-like methods, chaining, and more assertion logic
• WebSpecter is a BDD-style acceptance test framework for web applications