Pedro Teixeira - Using Node.js for UI Testing [2013, PDF, ENG]

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zombie.js 7
A brief history of software and user interface testing 8
Enter the automation era 9
Unit tests versus integration tests 9
What Zombie.js is 10
Understanding the server-side DOM 10
Zombie.js is your headless browser 11
Summary 12
Chapter 2: Creating a Simple Web App 13
Defining the requirements of our web app 13
Setting up Node.js and Flatiron 14
Installing Node.js 14
Installing Node from the source code 15
Installing Flatiron and starting your application 16
Creating your to-do app 19
Setting up the database 19
Accessing CouchDB from Node 20
Application layout 22
Developing the frontend 23
User registration 25
Logging in and session management 30
The to-do list 34
File summary 46
Summary 47
Chapter 3: Installing Zombie.js and Mocha 49
Changing the application manifest 49
Setting up a test environment 51
Summary 54
Chapter 4: Understanding Mocha 55
Organizing your tests 55
Using before and after hooks 57
Using asynchronous hooks 59
How hooks interact with test groups 60
Using assertions 62
Changing the assertion message 63
Performing asynchronous tests 64
Summary 65
Chapter 5: Manipulating the Zombie Browser 67
When is the browser ready? 70
Options when visiting URLs 72
debug 72
headers 73
maxWait 74
Checking the existence of elements 74
Filling a form 76
Testing the login form 81
Testing the to-do list 85
Testing the to-do list page 87
Testing the to-do item creation 88
Testing to-do item removal 90
Putting it all together 96
Summary 97
Chapter 6: Testing Interactions 99
Acting on radio buttons 99
Testing the user interaction 105
Selecting values 107
Summary 111
Chapter 7: Debugging 113
Running a specific test 115
Enabling the debugging output per test 116
Using the browser JavaScript console 117
Dumping the browser state 119
Dumping the whole document 121
Summary 122
Chapter 8: Testing AJAX 123
Implementing drag-and-drop 123
Summary 127
Index 129