Snippetron

This is an example app for my talk "Testing your Backbone from the outside-in" given at ScotlandJS in June 2012.

Functionally, all it does is allow a snippet to be saved, and a success message to be displayed when the server has successfully completed the save.

There are very simple examples of acceptance / functional tests using both CasperJS and Cucumber.js / Zombie and unit tests using BusterJS.

Pre-requisites

• Node.js with NPM
• PhantomJS
• CasperJS

Installation

• Clone the project
• > cd to the project directory
• > npm install to install dependencies locally from package.json
• > npm link

Running the app for acceptance tests

Both CasperJS and Cucumber.js acceptance tests require the app to run. Start the app server with:

  > supervisor app.js

Supervisor allows hot code reloading of Node.js applications without restarting the web server.

Running tests

CasperJS & PhantomJS

There are 2 very simple acceptance tests using CasperJS, a scripting, testing and navigation utility for the PhantomJS headless web browser in test/functional.

To run tests:

  > casperjs test test/functional

Cucumber.js & Zombie

There are 2 very simple cucumber.js scenarios that can be run. These use the zombie headless browser. Features are in the features directory, along with step definitions and cucumber.js setup.

To run the scenarios:

  > cucumber.js

Buster unit tests

There is a small suite of Buster.js unit specs in BDD style in the spec directory.

To run specs, start the buster server with:

  > buster server

Then, navigate any number of slave browsers to the buster server at http://localhost:1111

Run specs with:

  > buster test --reporter specification

or simply:

  > buster test

for less verbose output.