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webica

A Clojure binding for Selenium WebDriver

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Check out the CHANGELOG

Background

When testing web applications -- especially in the context of continuous integration testing -- you need to have a tool to remotely control a web browser. This is essential for developing and testing ClojureScript applications and *.cljs or *.cljc libraries targeting the browser.

While clj-webdriver is a nice Clojure wrapper for Selenium it often falls behind in tracking upstream versions and, consequently, often breaks with new browsers (e.g. when the browser version exceeds the known range).

The purpose of webica is to generate a Clojure wrapper for Selenium making heavy use of introspection in the spirit of amazonica which should track Selenium (the Clojure source code can be generated nearly automatically) and expose new upstream APIs more quickly.

Because of the use of introspection it is not easy to generate codox style API documents (see #1). However every webica namespace has a show-functions function to explain the symbols available in that namespace.

Prerequisites

Obviously you need to have a web browser installed. Not as obviously you also need to have the corresponding driver installed:

For using Clojure boot scripts (like the example below) or for developing webica please install boot if you haven't done so already.

For more on boot see Sean's blog and the boot Wiki. This is how Clojure boot scripts work.

Example

Check out the example Clojure boot script using webica that imitates Let me Google that for you on the command line.

./examples/lmgtfy ClojureScript for thought

Development status and Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details on how to make a contribution.

Note that webica does not yet have complete coverage of all Selenium classes.

Here are some helpful Selenium links

Logging is controlled by the following environment variables:

  • WEBICA_LOG the name of the log file [webica.log]
  • WEBICA_LEVEL the desired log level [warn] must be one of: #{"trace" "debug" "info" "warn" "error" "fatal" "report"}

Copyright and license

Copyright © 2016 Tom Marble

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 LICENSE

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