Shisha, smoke tests made easy!

Shisha is a smoke testing library written in NodeJs. Simply provide a list of URLs and expected status codes and Shisha will take care of testing them!

Installation

You can install this library through NPM:

npm install -g shisha

Usage

In your project root directory, define a .smoke file:

http://example.org 200
http://example.org/about 200
http://example.org/isdf 404
http://example.org/private 403

then simply cd into your project's root and run shisha!

.smoke file

Defining the .smoke file is flexible, you can define your URLs with variables in this form:

http://{{ domain1 }}/{{ path }}/some-url 200
http://{{ domain2 }}/{{ path }}/some-other-url 200

By calling shisha --domain1 example.org --domain2 example.net --path api, the locals are populated automatically!

Even more! You can define any text file with a list of URLs and expected status codes and point shisha at them using the --smoke option shisha --smoke ./my/other/project/.urls

Smoke File Comments: you can add hash style comments inline by starting the line with a hash like this:

# A comment  
http://example.org/some-url 200

Extending

To be able to extend shisha, simply:

npm install --save shisha

# then

var shisha = require('shisha');

Then, you will have access to the smoke method, that accepts following arguments:

• a path to the smoke file or an object / list that defines your resources
• a list of locals to replace in the smoke file: { domain1: 'example.org' }
• a callback that is triggered when the smoke tests are completed.

shisha.smoke(filePath, options, callback)

# or, with an object:

var resources = [{
  url: 'http://google.com',
  status: 200
},{
  url: 'http://ahhhhhhhhh.com',
  status: 404
}];

shisha.smoke(resources, options, callback);

# or you can even use another
# data model:

var resources = {
  'http://google.com': 200,
  'http://ahhhhh.com': 404,
};

shisha.smoke(resources, options, callback);

If you do not have any locals, you can omit them:

shisha.smoke(filePath, callback)

Tests

You can run tests locally with

npm test

The build is continuously run on travis.

On SSL/TLS self signed certificates

In order for shisha to work properly with servers hosting self signed certificates (mainly for development purposes) The CLI accepts a ca argument referring to the location of a local copy of the server's self signed certificate.

shisha --ca /path/to/cert.pem

Feedback

Add an issue, open a PR, drop us an email! We would love to hear from you!