wd-series

0.1.2 • Public • Published

wd-series

Async wrapper for Wd.js (the Node WebDriver client).

Easy install:

npm install wd-series

The idea

Let's say we have a WebDriver test we want to write. Here's the preamble:

var wd = require('wd'),
    should = require('should'),
    driver = wd.remote(),
    desiredCaps = {/* desired caps here */},
    postTest = function(err) {
      console.log("Test " + (err ? "failed" : "passed") + ". Time for beer");
    };

With vanilla Wd.js, you can create amazing pyramids with tons of boilerplate. Like this!

driver.init(desiredCaps, function(err, sessionId) {
  if (err) return postTest(err);
  driver.get("http://mysite.com", function(err) {
    if (err) return postTest(err);
    driver.elementById("someId", function(err, el) {
      if (err) return postTest(err);
      el.click(function(err) {
        if (err) return postTest(err);
        driver.elementById("anotherThing", function(err, el2) {
          if (err) return postTest(err);
          el2.text(function(err, text) {
            if (err) return postTest(err);
            text.should.equal("What the text should be");
            driver.quit(postTest);
          });
        });
      });
    });
  });
});

Hooray pyramids! I mean, Boo Pyramids! Using wd-series, you can make it line up more nice-like:

driverSeries(driver, [
  function() { this.init(desiredCaps); },
  function() { this.get("http://mysite.com"); },
  function() { this.elementById("someId"); },
  function() { this.res.click(); },
  function() { this.elementById("anotherThing"); },
  function() { this.res.text() },
  function() { this.res.should.equal("What the text should be"); this.next(); },
  function() { this.quit(); }
], postTest);

It looks even more compact in coffeescript!

driverSeries driver[
    -> @init desiredCaps
    -> @get "http://mysite.com"
    -> @elementById "someId"
    -> @res.click()
    -> @elementById "anotherThing"
    -> @res.text()
    -> @res.should.equal "What the text should be"; @next
    -> @quit()
]postTest

Enjoy. Send pull requests. Create Issues. Etc.

Control Flow

You can even do some common control flowage.

Pause execution

driverSeries(driver, [
  function() { this.sleep(10); }
], cb);

Run a block multiple times synchronously with different inputs

driverSeries(driver, [
  function() { this.elementsByTagName("option"); },
  function() { this.each(this.res, [
    function() { this.res.text(); },
    function() { console.log(this.res); this.next(); }
  ]); }
], cb);

The above example finds all the 'option' elements and gets the text of each one, printing it out in succession.

Run a block only if another block is successful

driverSeries(driver, [
  function() { this.iff([
    function() { this.elementById("idThatExists"); }
  ], [
    // Element exists, this block will get run
    function() { this.res.text(); },
    function() { console.log(this.res); this.next(); }
  ]); }
], cb);
driverSeries(driver, [
  function() { this.iff([
    function() { this.elementById("idThatDoesntExist"); }
  ], [
    // Element doesn't exist, this block won't get run
    function() { console.log("I'm sad, I'll never get run"); this.next(); }
  ]); }
], cb);

Run a block and continue execution even if the block fails

Honey badger don't care if the block fails!

driverSeries(driver, [
  function() { this.honeyBadger([
    function() { this.next(new Error("This would normally cause us to quit the series")); }
  ]); },
  function() { console.log("This will run anyway."); this.next(); }
], cb);

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