Keteparaha - A testing framework for modern web apps
written on Monday, March 23, 2015
I started writing Keteparaha earlier this year after joining a new startup where I was attempting to teach the rest of the team functional testing techniques.
Using the Selenium Webdriver API directly felt so... clunky. Explaining to someone who isn't already sold on functional testing that the reason the button click failed was probably because the JavaScript that was meant to bind the click event didn't run fast enough. Well that was probably why it worked on my machine but not theirs. Or that I wanted them to use Page objects to hold the logic associated with each page and Component objects to represesnt parts of the page. But they would have to manage creating and returning these themselves.
So Keteparaha does that stuff for you. When the URL of the browser changes it looks up to see if it knows which page object it should be on now. When you click a button you can tell it to wait for a new component to appear and then it will return it to you. When you ask to click a link. It will make sure that the link is actually clickable. And tell you if it isn't. You can see a usage example below. But full keteparaha API documentation can be found here.
from keteparaha import BrowserTestCase, Component, Page
SERVER_URL = 'http://www.simple.com/{}'
class LoginPage(Page):
url = SERVER_URL.format('login/')
def login(self, email, password):
self.enter_text('input[name=email]', email)
self.enter_text('input[name=password]', email)
return self.click('input[name=submut]')
class Dashboard(Page):
url = SERVER_URL.format('dashboard/')
def logged_in_username(self):
return self.get_component('.username').text
def open_comment_modal(self, comment):
return self.click_button('Feedback', opens='#comment')
class CommentModal(Component)
selector = '#comment'
def comment(self, message):
self.enter_text('input[name=message]', message)
self.click('input[type=submit]')
# User logs in and is redirected to the dashboard
dashboard = LoginPage(self.driver).login('a@b.com', 'xxxxx')
# Their username is in the top menu
self.assertEqual(dashboard.logged_in_username(), 'aychedee')
# They can leave some feedback for the site owner
comment_modal = dashboard.open_comment_modal()
comment_modal.comment("Is it tea you're looking for?")
If an input field is inactive, it'll wait for it to become active, in the hope that a bit of JavaScript hasn't yet been run.
Hopefully it makes functionally testing a modern JS heavy web app a lot easier.