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interaction and testing library for html based ring apps.

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kerodon is an interaction and testing library for ring html based apps. It is intended to look like the interaction a user would have. It is inspired by capybara.

See also peridot for an API for interacting with Ring apps.

Dependency Information

Clojars Project

kerodon's latest version and information on how to install it is available from clojars.

Usage

Example

(ns myapp.test.integration
  (:use [kerodon.core]
        [kerodon.test]
        [clojure.test])
  (:require [clojure.java.io :as io]))

(deftest user-can-login-and-upload-picture
  ;imagine ring-app is a login required picture upload
  (-> (session ring-app)
      (visit "/")
      (follow "login")
      (fill-in "User:" "username")
      (fill-in "Password:" "password")
      (press "Login")
      (follow-redirect)
      (has (missing? [:#no-such-element])
           "User shouldn't see the no-such-element")

      (follow "update profile")
      (has (attr? [:form] :id "profile"))
      (has (value? "Email:" "[email protected]")
           "Email field defaults to user's email")
      (attach-file "Picture:" (io/file "/tmp/foo.png"))
      (press "update")
      (follow-redirect)

      (within [:#picture]
        (has (text? "foo.png")
             "Picture name is near picture."))
      (within [:#content]
        (has (missing? [:#navigation])))))

Interaction

The api namespace for interaction is kerodon.core. If you are using kerodon in tests you may want to have (:use [kerodon.core]) in your ns declaration. All examples below assume so.

kerodon is based on peridot, and designed to be used with ->.

Initialization

You can create an initial state with session.

(session ring-app) ;Use your ring app

Navigation

You can use visit to send a request to your ring app.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/"))

You can pass extra arguments like you can to peridot.core/request, but this is not recommended.

You can use follow-redirect to follow a redirect response.

kerodon will not follow redirects automatically. This will throw an IllegalArgumentException when the last response was not a redirect.

(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/redirect")
    (follow-redirect))
You can use follow to follow a link.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (follow "login"))

The selector can be the text of the link, or a vector of css elements.

Form interaction

You can use fill-in to fill in a form field.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (follow "login")
    (fill-in "User:" "username")
    (fill-in "Password:" "password")

The selector can be the text or css of a label with a for attribute, or the css of the field itself.

You can use choose to fill in a combo box.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (follow "login")
    (choose "Issue Type:" "Bug")
    (choose "Parent:" "123")

The selector can be the text or css of a label with a for attribute, or the css of the field itself. The option argument can be the text of the option, or its value.

You can use check to tick a checkbox.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (follow "login")
    (check "Remember Me"))

The selector can be the text or css of a label with a for attribute, or the css of the field itself.

You can use attach-file to fill in a file field.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (follow "upload")
    (attach-file "Picture:" (clojure.java.io/file "/tmp/foo")))

The selector can be the text or css of a label with a for attribute, or the css of the field itself.

You can use press to submit a form.
(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (follow "login")
    (fill-in "User:" "username")
    (fill-in "Password:" "password")
    (press "Login"))

The selector can be the text or css of a submit button.

Within

Sometimes you might have multiple html elements that can match. You can restrict the search space using within.

(-> (session ring-app) ;Use your ring app
    (visit "/")
    (within [:#signin2]
      (press "Login")))

Testing

The api namespace for testing is kerodon.test. This uses the same machinery as clojure.test. If you are using kerodon in tests you may want to have (:use [kerodon.test]) in your ns declaration. All examples below assume so.

The main function is has. It allows the verifications to compose using ->. It requires one of the verification functions, and an optional error message.

You can use status? to validate the status code of the last response. You can use text? or regex? to validate the text in the page/element. You can use some-text? or some-regex? to look for text anywhere in the page/element. Note that for all of text?, regex?, some-text?, and some-regex? tests replace all one or more consecutive whitespace characters (i.e., ' ', '\t', '\n', etc.) in the text of the page/element with a single space. This feature allows the tests to ignore line breaks and spacing issues in the source text. You can use value? to validate the value of a field. The selector can be the text or css of a label with a for element, or the css of the field itself. You can use attr? to validate an attribute's value. You can use link? to look for an anchor tag with matching text, href or both. You can use heading? to look for a heading (h1 - h6) with matching text.

(-> (session ring-app)
    (visit "/hello")
    (has (status? 200)
         "page is found")
    (has (text? "hello world")
         "page says hello world")
    (has (some-text? "world")
         "page includes 'world'"))

(-> (session ring-app)
    (visit "/comment/new")
    (has (value? "name" "anonymous")
         "comments default to anonymous")
    (has (value? "comment" "")
         "comments default empty"))

(-> (session ring-app)
    (visit "/comment/new")
    (has (attr? [:form] :class "comments")))

(-> (session ring-app)
	(visit "/welcome")
	(has (link? "Login")
		 "page has link to login")
	(has (link? :href "/session/new")
		"login link text is 'Login'"))

These should all work with within.

Transactions and database setup

kerodon runs without an http server and, depending on your setup, transactions can be used to rollback and isolate tests. Some fixtures may be helpful:

(use-fixtures :once
              (fn [f]
                (clojure.java.jdbc/with-connection db (f))))
(use-fixtures :each
              (fn [f]
                (clojure.java.jdbc/transaction
                 (clojure.java.jdbc/set-rollback-only)
                 (f))))

Building

leiningen is used as the build tool. lein all test will run the test suite against clojure 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7.

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Nelson Morris and contributors

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.