Testing Area/Behat Testing

Setup

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How to run tests

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How to write good tests

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Useful Behat steps in Mahara

These steps are specific to Mahara and are constantly changing. Behat testing is still new to Mahara and is in the early stages of development still.

Logging In

Logs you in as Admin for testing purpose

  @Given I am logged in as the user "admin" with password "Password1"

Opening/Loading/Closing Pages

Opens Mahara homepage.

 @Given I am on homepage

Reloads the current page.

 @Given I reload the page

Waits until the page is completely loaded. This step is auto-executed after every step.

 @Given I wait until the page is ready
    

Switching Frames/Windows

Switches to the specified iframe.

 @Given I switch to "$iframename" iframe

Switches to the main Mahara frame.

 @Given I switch to the main frame

Switches to the specified window. Useful when interacting with popup windows.

 @Given I switch to “windowname” windows

Switches to the main Mahara window. Useful when you finish interacting with popup windows.

@Given I switch to the main window

Actions Requiring Waiting

Waits X seconds. Required after an action that requires data from an AJAX request.

 @Then I wait "$numberofseconds" seconds

Waits until the provided element selector exists in the DOM

 @Given I wait until "$element" "$selector" exists

Click Actions

Generic mouse over action. Mouse over a element of the specified type.

 @When I hover "$element" "$selector"
    

Click on the element of the specified type which is located inside the second element.

 @When I click on "$element" "$selector"

Click on the specified element inside a table row containing the specified text.

 @Given I click on "$element" "$selector" in the table row
    

Clicks link with specified id|title|alt|text.

 @When I follow "id|title|alt|text"

Presses button with specified id|name|title|alt|value.

 @When I press "BUTTON_STRING"

Checking For Specfic Visible Elements

Checks, that the specified element is visible. Only available in tests using Javascript.

 @Then "$elements" "$selector" should be visible
    
 @Then "$element" "$selector" should not be visible

Checks, that the specified element is visible inside the specified container. Only available in tests using Javascript.

 @Then "$element" "$selector" in the "$elementcontainer" "$selector" should be visible     

Checks, that the specified element is not visible inside the specified container. Only available in tests using Javascript.

 @Then "$element" "$selector" in the "$elementcontainer" "$textselector" should not be visible
         

Checks, that page contains specified text. It also checks if the text is visible when running Javascript tests.

 @Then I should see "$text"
    

Checks, that page doesn't contain specified text. When running Javascript tests it also considers that texts may be hidden.

 @Then I should not see "$text"

Checks, that the specified element contains the specified text. When running Javascript tests it also considers that texts may be hidden.

 @Then I should see "$text" in the "$element" “$sector”

Checks, that the specified element does not contain the specified text. When running Javascript tests it also considers that texts may be hidden.

 @Then I should not see "$text" in the “$element" "$selector”

Checks, that the first specified element appears before the second one.

 @Given "$element" "$selector" should appear before "$element" "$selector"
    

Checks, that the first specified element appears after the second one.

 @Given "$element" "selector" should appear after $"element"  $"selector"

Checks, that element of specified type is disabled.

 @Then the "$element" "$selector" should be disabled
    

Checks, that element of specified type is enabled.

 @Then the "$element" "$selector" should be enabled
    

Checks the provided element and selector type are readonly on the current page.

 @Then the "$element" "$selector" should be readonly

Checks the provided element and selector type exists in the current page. -This step is for advanced users, use it if you don't find anything else suitable for what you need.

 @Then "$element" "$selector" should exists

Checks that the provided element and selector type not exists in the current page. -This step is for advanced users, use it if you don't find anything else suitable for what you need.

 @Then "$element" "$selector" should not exists

Checks that an element and selector type exists in another element and selector type on the current page. -This step is for advanced users, use it if you don't find anything else suitable for what you need.

 @Then "$element" "$selector" should exist in the "$element" "$selector"

Ungrouped Steps

Follows the page redirection. Use this step after any action that shows a message and waits for a redirection

 @Given I wait to be redirected
    

Accepts the currently displayed alert dialog. This step does not work in all the browsers, consider it experimental.

 @Given I accept the currently displayed dialog

Drags and drops the specified element to the specified container. This step does not work in all the browsers, consider it experimental.

 @Given I drag "$element" "$selector" and I drop it in "$containerelement" ”$selector"
    

This step triggers cron like a user would do going to admin/cron.php.

 @Given I trigger cron