Spider Tester plugin

Plugin details

SpiderTester is an automated integration-testing script that iterates over every page in your application. It performs a few valuable tasks for you:

- parses the html of every page, so if you have invalid html, you will be warned.
- finds every link to within your site and follows it, whether static or dynamic.
- finds every Ajax.Updater link and follows it.
- finds every form and tries to submit it, filling in values where possible.

This is helpful in determining:

- missing static pages (.html)
- poor code coverage - forgot to test a file? Don't wait for a user to find it.
- simple fuzzing of form values.
- automated testing of form paths. Often we have forms which point to incorrect
locations, and up until now this has been impossible to test in an automated fashion
or without being strongly coupled to your code.

Repositorysvn://caboo.se/plugins/court3nay/spider_test LicenseUnknown

Documentation

Install the plugin: 
ruby script/plugin install svn://caboo.se/plugins/court3nay/spider_test

USAGE 

script/generate integration_test spider_test



Load up the test/integration/spider_test.rb and make it look something like this, replacing your own implementation details where appropriate. You'll probably want to load all of your fixtures. 

  require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../test_helper"
  
  class SpiderTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
    fixtures :users, :roles, :images, :categories
    include Caboose::SpiderIntegrator
  
    def test_spider
      get '/'
      assert_response :success
  
      spider(@response.body, '/')
    end
  
  end



If you require a login for your app, you'll need to specifically log in. I do it like: 

  require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../test_helper"
  
  class SpiderTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
    fixtures :users, :roles, :images, :categories
    include Caboose::SpiderIntegrator
  
    def test_spider
      get '/sessions/new'
      assert_response :success
      post '/sessions/create', :login => 'admin', :password => 'test'
      assert session[:user]
      assert_response :redirect
      assert_redirected_to '/'
      follow_redirect!

      spider(@response.body, '/', 
               :verbose => true,
               :ignore_urls => ['/login', %r{^.+logout}, %r{^.+delete.?}, %r{^.+/destroy.?}], 
               :ignore_forms => [])
     end
  
  end

Further Documentation

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Edit plugin | (0 older versions) | Last edited by: scott, over 2 years ago