Fancy Name so not inspired from Bees With machine Guns ;).
This is a tool to write Performance/Stress Testing Python scripts which will run off the Multi-Mechanize.
The cool thing about this tool is that you surf the website and you write your test scripts on the fly via the Command line interpreter using python library cmd2 library which is an extension to the python cmd library.
To use this script you'll need to install the following on a Ubuntu Based System. Note the script was tested on Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit System.
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install mechanize
$ sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
$ sudo pip install -U multi-mechanize
Let's fire up the cliwmg script. Note means hitting the Enter Key. and Hiiting the Tab key.
$ python cliwmg.py<RETURN>
>>>
Now you are inside the CLI. It behaves very similar to the standard bash shell. Try pressing Tab Twice.
>>> <TAB><TAB>
EOF cmdenvironment eof l pause run shortcuts
_load controls_set exit li py save show
_relative_load controls_show help list q select_form start
back ed hi load quit set
click edit history open_current_url r shell
>>>
It shows you all the commands that you can excute. Some of them are inbuilt to the cmd2 module while some are commands specific to this script.
Let's start with the start command.
>>> start<RETURN>
Taking Default URL : https://dev2.learningu.org/
Page Title : ESP
start command initializes your mechanize module with the url given. if no url is given it takes a default url https://dev2.learningu.org/ otherwise you can specifiy it as a paramater like start http://www.example.com
It shows you the Page Title after opening that URL inside of mechanize. Which you can check is ESP for the default URL.
Now lets Try registring yourself as a user. We have a command called as click. Oh by the way you don't need to type the whole command just type cl and it'll finish it for you. Give a space and press TAB again to see what are the Links you can click on. It shows you the Text Label of the links available on that page.
>>> cl<TAB>
>>> click <TAB>
Administration_pages For_Teachers
Click_here For_Volunteers
Cnn.com Login_Help
ESP Logout
Edit_Announcement/Links Manage_Programs
Edit_Navigation_Categories More_Information
Edit_Navigation_Links On-Site_Registration
Edit_News Register
For_Students Unmorph_to_document.write(esp_user.cur_retTitle);
We wanted to Sign up right? So lets click on Register. Oh wait. Who wants to type the whole word, Just type r (yeah it'll take care of the case senstivity too).
>>> click r<TAB>
>>> click Register<RETURN>
URL : /myesp/register
Text : Register
https://dev2.learningu.org//myesp/register
Page Title : Create a new user account
Great we are inside the User Creation Page. :) Why you no believe me? Okay fine. You check it yourself. So we have a command called as open_current_url. Lets check its docstring by doing a help on it.
>>> help open_current_url<RETURN>
Stores the current URL's data in to the current directory of the script and saves it as debug.html.
Opens it in your default browser for debugging. >>>> open_current_url
Okay Cool. Every Command has its own docstring you can check for help.
>>> open_current_url<RETURN>
It should have opened the current Registration page in your default browser. You can see we are indeed inside the Sign Up Page.
Okay close it and come back to the console.
We want to fill the form, so lets see what all forms do we have?
>>> sel<TAB>
>>> select_form <TAB>
loginform newuser_form
>>> select_form n<TAB><RETURN>
Form Selected : newuser_form
Okay great. The form is selected. Lets see what all Parameters it has.
>>> co<TAB>
>>> controls_sh<TAB>
>>> controls_show<RETURN>
first_name
last_name
username
password
confirm_password
initial_role
email
submit
Okay. So how do we fill of that? Well we have a command that Automatically generates random credentials for text, password and email type values. For drop down values it selects it based on random values as of now.
>>> controls_set
<TextControl(first_name=Test9e2e2QBA7KAFB22Y)>
<TextControl(last_name=Test9e2e2MT8DKT24TVW)>
<TextControl(username=Test9e2e2K73IFEQIDAQ)>
<PasswordControl(password=Test23e2e26GA2BQG0111)>
<PasswordControl(confirm_password=Test23e2e26GA2BQG0111)>
<SelectControl(initial_role=[, *Student, Teacher, Guardian, Educator, Volunteer])>
<TextControl(email=Test9e2e27QRS3U8SYH4@test.com)>
<SubmitControl(submit=Create account, proceed to profile creation) (readonly)>
<TextControl(csrfmiddlewaretoken=ef111e8084275638c91bc62d5c6b1111)>
Submitted
Title of the Current Page : Profile Editor
Note how the values were Generated and submitted automatically for you. :) Okay so lets sign out. How? Well we "Click" on it! ;)
>>> cl<TAB>
>>> click <TAB>
>>> click logo<TAB>
>>> click logout<RETURN>
URL : /myesp/signout/
Text : Logout
https://dev2.learningu.org//myesp/signout/
Page Title : Goodbye
And lets quit the program. :)
>>> quit
You are awesome! Cya Soon!
Good Job :)