grunt-webdriver

grunt-webdriver

grunt-webdriver is a grunt plugin to run selenium tests with Mocha and WebdriverIO

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-webdriver --save-dev

One the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-webdriver');

The "webdriver" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named webdriver to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

Run this task with the grunt webdriver command.

grunt.initConfig({
  webdriver: {
    options: {
        desiredCapabilities: {
            browserName: 'chrome'
        }
    },
    login: {
        tests: ['test/spec/login/*.js'],
        options: {
            // overwrite default settings
            desiredCapabilities: {
                browserName: 'firefox'
            }
        }
    },
    form: {
        tests: ['test/spec/form/*.js']
    }
    // ...
  },
})

example using Sauce Labs

If you specify a tunnel-identifier within your desiredCapabilities object, the task will automatically try to establish a tunnel connection via Sauce Connect.

grunt.initConfig({
  webdriver: {
    options: {
        host: 'ondemand.saucelabs.com',
        port: 80,
        user: SAUCE_USERNAME,
        key: SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY,
        desiredCapabilities: {
            browserName: 'chrome',
            version: '27',
            platform: 'XP',
            'tunnel-identifier': 'my-tunnel'
        }
    },
    login: {
        tests: ['test/spec/login/*.js']
    },
    form: {
        tests: ['test/spec/form/*.js']
    }
    // ...
  },
})

Options

All options get passed into the WebdriverIO remote function. So this is the place where you can define your driver instance. You'll find more informations about all WebdriverIO options here. You can overwrite these options in any target. Also you have to define all Mocha options here. The following are supported:

bail

Type: Boolean
Default: false

If true you are only interested in the first execption

ui

Type: String
Default: bdd
Options: bdd | tdd | qunit | exports

Specify the interface to use.

reporter

Type: String
Default: spec
Options: Base | Dot | Doc | TAP | JSON | HTML | List | Min | Spec | Nyan | XUnit | Markdown | Progress | Landing | JSONCov | HTMLCov | JSONStream

Allows you to specify the reporter that will be used.

slow

Type: Number
Default: 75

Specify the "slow" test threshold, defaulting to 75ms. Mocha uses this to highlight test-cases that are taking too long.

timeout

Type: Number
Default: 1000000

Specifies the test-case timeout.

grep

Type: String

When specified will trigger mocha to only run tests matching the given pattern which is internally compiled to a RegExp.

updateSauceJob

Type: Boolean
Default: false

If true it will automatically update the current job and does publish it.

output

Type: String Default: null

If set grunt-webdriver will pipe reporter output into given file path

quiet

Type: Boolean Default: false

If true it prevents the original process.stdout.write from executing - no output at all

nospawn

Type: Boolean
Default: false

If true it will not spawn a new selenium server process (useful if you use Sauce Labs without Sauce Tunnel)

seleniumOptions

Type: Object
Default: {}

Options for starting the Selenium server. For more information check out the selenium-standalone project.

seleniumInstallOptions

Type: Object
Default: {}

Options for installing Selenium dependencies. For more information check out the selenium-standalone project.

Usage Examples

Required Options

In this example, the minimum required options are used to execute a simple test script.

grunt.initConfig({
  webdriver: {
    githubTest: {
      tests: './test/github-test.js'
    }
  },
})

The corresponding Hello World test script is using WebdriverIO API to search the grunt-webdriver repository on GitHub. The global browser variable lets you access your client instance. See more functions and test examples in the WebdriverIO repository.

'use strict';

var assert = require('assert');

describe('grunt-webdriver test', function () {

    it('checks if title contains the search query', function(done) {

        browser
            .url('http://github.com')
            .setValue('#js-command-bar-field','grunt-webdriver')
            .submitForm('.command-bar-form')
            .getTitle(function(err,title) {
                assert(title.indexOf('grunt-webdriver') !== -1);
            })
            .call(done);

    });

});

Using CoffeeScript

If you like to write your tests in CoffeeScript just add the following on the top of your Gruntfile and you are set.

require('coffee-script/register');

module.exports = function(grunt) {
    // Project configuration.
    grunt.initConfig({
        // ...
    });
}

Contributing

Please fork, add specs, and send pull requests! In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style.

Release History

• 2013-03-13   v0.1.1   first working version, without special features
• 2013-03-14   v0.1.2   bugfixing, enhanced task option, improved test case
• 2013-03-15   v0.1.3   added support for phantomjs, implemented reporter option
• 2013-03-16   v0.1.4   save result of busterjs reporters to a file, use travis for CI testing
• 2013-03-16   v0.1.5   added support for setUp function
• 2013-03-16   v0.1.6   fixed WebdriverJS version
• 2014-02-01   v0.2.0   rewrote plugin, replaced BusterJS with Mocha
• 2014-03-13   v0.3.0   support Sauce Connect
• 2014-03-16   v0.3.1   start selenium server and Sauce Connect tunnel only once
• 2014-03-22   v0.3.2   make task work with absolute minimum required options - closes #11
• 2014-03-13   v0.3.3   updated version of WebdriverJS
• 2014-03-13   v0.4.0   pipe reporter output into file, expose flag to prevent spawing of selenium process
• 2014-05-23   v0.4.1   updated dependencies
• 2014-08-17   v0.4.2   updated webdriverjs dependencies
• 2014-08-17   v0.4.3   fixed broke v0.4.3 version
• 2014-09-18   v0.4.4   selenium server outputs log on stderr, implemented workaround
• 2014-11-27   v0.4.5   Updated WebdriverIO package version, smaller bugfixes regarding file output
• 2014-11-27   v0.4.6   Additional bugfixes
• 2014-11-27   v0.4.7   check isLastTask properly
• 2014-11-27   v0.4.8   bugfix
• 2015-04-22   v0.5.0   updated selenium-standalone dependency
• 2015-04-26   v0.5.1   better handling of different environments - closes webdriverio/webdriverio#506