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utiltest

utiltest provides functionality for testing, saving time for developing automatic tests.

Install

$ npm install utiltest

Modules

Main

This module provides basic features for test. There the following functions.

testLoader

This function load all the test defined in a specific folder. Any js that doesn't begining by a dot or be a index, will be consider a test file.

'use strict';
var utiltest = require('utiltest'),
  path = require('path');
var fs = require('fs');
describe('dao', function(){
  utiltest.testLoader(path.resolve(__dirname));
});

|-myfolder
||-subfolder
|||-index.js
||-subfolder2
|||-file.js
||-.jshintrc.js
||-anyfile.ext
||-index.js
||-file1.js
||-file2.js

The method will load:

file1.js
file2.js
subfolder/index.js

yadda

This provide basic functionality for using yadda. This module exports a default library and also the necessary methods for create your own library and dictionary.

By default utiltest.yadda provide the basic dictionary with the default steps.

initDictionary

This method return the initial dictionary for creating a new onMessage.

var dictionary = utiltest.yadda.initDictionary;

initLibrary

This method initialize a library. If a dictionary is provided, then the dictionary is automatically add to the library.

var library = utiltest.yadda.initLibrary(dictionary);

Creates a library using a given dictionary.

var library = utiltest.yadda.initLibrary();

Creates a library without a dictionary

addCommonSteps

Add common steps to a given library

var library = utiltest.yadda.addCommonSteps(library);;

Add the common steps to a given library.

Default dictionary.

The default dictionary contains the following terms:

json -->> Convert a string to a JSON object
strArray -->> convert a string , separate in an array of strings
userLogin -->> convert a usser, password in to an object like
```
{"user": "string", "password":"string"}
```
statusCode --> convert string in to a number between 100 and 999

Default steps

Launch $json or launch $json: Execute a python script with the given options defined in $json, and wait until the script finish before go to next step.

Given the following context\n$form: Store the given context ($json) in the test context.

Then the response is[\b\n]$json Validates that the response, which is stored in the test context, be equal to $json

Then responses with $type Validates that the response, which is stored in the test context, is of the given type.

Then the response should be like[\s\n]$form Validates that the response, which is stored in the test context, is of the kind defined in $form. See validation.