Pixies

A front-end monkey testing suite based on Python webdriver.

Watch out for the flying pixies!

Usage

Quick start

$ pip install pixies

Download Chrome Webdriver binary, and add it to the System PATH.

Make sure when entering chromedriver in the terminal, the following prompt appears:

$ ChromeDriver was started successfully.

Use pixies in python:

import pixies

cage = pixies.Cage('https://news.baidu.com')
cage.release()

If you'd like to specify the species (which have different behavior) of pixies:

import pixies
from pixies.species import Clicker, Scroller, Toucher, Typer, Resizer

cage = pixies.Cage(
    'https://news.baidu.com',
    pixieList=[
        Clicker, Scroller, Toucher, Typer, Resizer
    ])
cage.release()

Params

class pixies.Cage(
    url, # necessary
    pixieList = [
        Clicker, Scroller, Toucher, Typer, Resizer
    ], # optional, all pixie species by default
    weightList = [], # optional, equal weight by default
    browser = 'chrome', # optional, 'safari'|'chrome'|'firefox'
    stopAtError = True, # optional
)
method pixies.Cage.release(
    length = 100 # optional, times to run pixies
)

Species

Different pixie species do different things to the page.

Clicker

• Randomly click on the page visible area

• Prevent navigation automatically

• Switch back immediately when new pages are openned

• Identify clickable objects and focus on them

Scroller

• Randomly scroll to different places of the main page

Resizer

• Resize the page randomly

• Identify the max and min size of the page automatically

Typer

• Generates random UTF-8 BMP characters and control keys (such as shift, enter, ESC stc.) and send them to the currently active element

• Prevent the page from navigating away

• Identify input objects and send keys to them

Toucher

• Imitate touch events, supporting path touching

Example