Apuppet is an utility which allows you to easily launch, and control applications from the command line. It was built to launch different browser versions for cross-browser testing.
Usage
Usage: browsertap [options] [command]
Commands:
start <appName> [args] starts an application
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-c, --config <path> browsertap configuration file
Terminal Example
Launching chrome 25
browsertap start chrome@25 http://google.com
Launching multiple applications:
browsertap start chrome@25+firefox@18 http://google.com
Command line examples
Example
In /usr/local/etc/browsertap/config.json
"directory": "/path/to/apps/dir"
Structure of /path/to/apps/dir
:
apps/
chrome/
- application nameindex.coffee
- application driverversions/
- application driver10.lnk
11.lnk
settings/
10 11 12/
safari/
index.coffee
version/
...
settings/
...
browsertap API
browsertap(options)
var browsertap = directory: "./path/to/apps";
Array browsertap.applications
Returns all the loaded applications
browsertap.start(options)
Starts an application
Application Driver API
A basic application driver looks like this:
### starts ### : callback null @callback
Application AppDriver.start options, callback
options
version
- application version to runargs
- arguments to pass to the command line
callback
- called when the application has successfuly spawned
Array AppDriver.running()
Returns the running processes
Application.stop callback
Stops the application process
Application.exec options, callback
executes a command against the running process
Application.restart options
Restarts the application process
Application.running
TRUE if the application is running
Application.on event, callback
Adds an event listener to the application process
stop
- emitted when the process exits
start
- emitted when the application starts
module.exports = ChromeDriver