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Check Pages

Very Simple QA for HTTP

Heavy Development

Use at your own risk. This project is under heavy development and is undergoing changes pretty regularly.

Summary

This project intends to provide a process of QA testing of a website, which is very fast to implement and simple to maintain. You write your tests using YAML and they can be as simple as checking for a 200 HTTP response on the homepage.

-
  visit: /

Or ensuring the admin section is protected.

-
  visit: /admin
  why: Make sure the `/admin` path returns 403 forbidden when not logged in.
  status: 403

In a third test we can assert there is one logo image on the homepage, like so:

- visit: /
  find:
    - dom: '#logo img'
      count: 1

Lastly, make sure there are no unprocessed tokens on the page (a.k.a. a substring does not appear):

- visit: /
  find:
    - not contains: '[site:name]'

For more code examples explore the /examples directory.

Visit https://aklump.github.io/check_pages for full documentation.

Clarity of Purpose and Limitation

The mission of this tool is to provide testing for URLS and webpages in the most simple and concise syntax possible. For testing scenarios that require element interaction, such as clicks, hovers, scrolling, etc, there are amazing projects out there such as Cypress. This project will never try to compete with that crowd, and shall always restrict it's testing of the DOM to assertions against a single snapshot of the loaded URL.

Terms Used

Test Runner - A very simple PHP file that defines the configuration and what test suites to run, and in what order. @see includes/runner.php.
Test Suite - A YAML file that includes one or more checks against URLs. @see includes/suite.yml.
Test - A single URL check within a suite.
Assertion - A single check action against the HTTP response of a test, i.e., headers, body, status code, javascript, etc.

Requirements

You must install with Composer.
Tests suites are written in YAML.
Little to no experience with PHP is necessary. Copy and paste will suffice.

Install

$ composer require aklump/check-pages --dev

In most cases the --dev is appropriate, but use your own discretion.
You will be asked if you want to create a directory for your tests when you install. This will copy over a basic scaffolding to build from.¹
More detailed examples are located in the example directory.

Example Tests Demo

If you are new to this project and would like to see a demonstration, it would be a good idea to start with the examples. Run the example tests with the following commands. Then open up the files in the example/tests directory and study them to see how they work.¹

Open a new shell window which will run the PHP server for our example test pages.
```
 $ ./bin/start_test_server.sh
```
Open a second shell window to execute the tests.
```
 $ ./bin/run_tests.sh
```

¹ If you see no tests directory then create one and copy the contents of examples into tests. The example tests directory will only be created if you use create-project as the installation method.

Writing Your First Test Suite

checkpages init to create tests directory and runner in the current directory.

Multiple Configuration Files

The project is designed to be able to run the same tests using different configurations. You can create multiple configuration files so that you are able to run the same test on live and then on dev, which have different base URLs.

.
└── tests
    ├── config/dev.yml
    ├── config/live.yml
    ├── suite.yml
    └── runner.php

In runner.php use the following line to specify the default config file:

load_config('config/dev');

When you're ready to run this using the live config add the config filename to the CLI command, e.g.,

$ ./check_pages runner.php --config=config/live

Test functions

The test functions for your PHP test files are found in includes/runner_functions.inc.

Is JS Supported?

Yes, not by default, but you are able to indicate that given tests requires Javascript be run. Read on...

Javascript Testing Requirements

Your testing machine must have Chrome installed.

Enable Javascript per Test

Unless you enable it, or in the case the selector type (i.e., style , javascript) requires it, javascript is not run during testing. If you need to assert that an element exists, which was created from Javascript (or otherwise need javascript to run on the page), you will need to indicate the following in your test, namely js: true.

-
  visit: /foo
  js: true
  find:
    -
      dom: .js-created-page-title
      text: Javascript added me to the DOM!

Asserting Javascript Evaluations

Let's say you want to assert the value of the URL fragment. You can do that with the javascript selector. The value of javascript should be the expression to evaluate, once the page loads. Notice that you may omit the js: true as it will be set automatically.

-
  visit: /foo
  find:
    -
      javascript: location.hash
      is: "#top"

Javascript Testing Related Links

Filter

Use --filter to limit which suites are run.

The value passed to the filter will be matched against the $group/$id of the suite. Behind the scenes it is treated as a regex pattern, if you do not include delimiters, they will be added and case will not matter.

Given the following test suites...

.
├── api
│   ├── menus.yml
│   ├── reports.yml
│   └── users.yml
└── ui
    ├── footer.yml
    ├── login.yml
    └── menus.yml

Notice the usage of the / separator to control how the group influences the result.

Complex Filter

It's possible to provide a complex filter that uses or logic like this:

./check_pages runner.php -f reports -f menus

Troubleshooting

Try using the --response to see the response source code as well.

./check_pages runner.php --response

Usage

In this case, since the project will be buried in your vendor directory, you will need to provide the directory path to your test files, when you run the test script, like this:

./vendor/bin/check_pages runner.php --dir=./tests_check_pages

This example assumes a file structure like this:

.
├── tests_check_pages
│   └── runner.php
└── vendor
    └── bin
        └── check_pages

Contributing

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