webdriverjs-helper

This helper library offer lots of friendly api while using JavaScript WebDriver

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install webdriverjs-helper to enable the friendly APIs.

Testing

npm test

This starts a selenium server and runs tests in Firefox.

Build status

Documentation

You could setup the selenium webdriver like this. Remember to require 'webdriverjs-helper' to enable friendly apis.

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver')
require('chai').should()
// enable the friendly apis by requiring 'webdriverjs-helper'
require('webdriverjs-helper');

var builder = new webdriver.Builder().
  usingServer('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub').
  withCapabilities({
    browserName: 'firefox' 
  })
var browser = builder.build()
browser.get('http://localhost:9001')

Browser API

browser.navigateTo(path)

Go to the path which is relative to current path.

browser.navigateTo('/demo.html?a=1&b=2#c=1')
browser.currentUrl(function(currUrl, url) {
  currUrl.should.equal('http://localhost:9001/demo.html?a=1&b=2#c=1')
});

browser.currentUrl(currHandler)

Get current url.

browser.navigateTo('/demo.html?a=1&b=2#c=1')
browser.currentUrl(function(currUrl, url) {
  currUrl.should.equal('http://localhost:9001/demo.html?a=1&b=2#c=1')
  url.protocol.should.equal('http:')
  url.slashes.should.equal(true)
  url.host.should.equal('localhost:9001')
  url.port.should.equal('9001')
  url.hostname.should.equal('localhost')
  url.href.should.equal('http://localhost:9001/demo.html?a=1&b=2#c=1')
  url.hash.should.equal('#c=1')
  url.search.should.equal('?a=1&b=2')
  url.query.should.equal('a=1&b=2')
  url.pathname.should.equal('/demo.html')
  url.path.should.equal('/demo.html?a=1&b=2')
})

browser.refresh()

Refresh current page.

browser.forward()

Go forward to next page in history.

browser.back()

Go back to privious page in history.

browser.title(titleHandler)

Get title in current page.

browser.title(function (title) {
  title.should.equal('your title')
})

Window API

browser.window()

Get current window.

browser.window().position(positionHandler)

Get current window's position.

browser.window().position(function (x, y) {
  x.should.equal(0)
  y.should.equal(0)
})

browser.window().position(x, y)

Set current window's position to (x, y) relative to screen.

browser.window().position(100, 100)

browser.window().size(sizeHandler)

Get current window's size.

browser.window().size(function (width, height) {
  width.should.equal(500)
  height.should.equal(500)
})

browser.window().size(width, height)

Set current window's size with width and height.

browser.window().size(500, 500)

browser.window().maximize()

Maximize the current window to full screen.

Elements API

browser.elements(selector)

Get all matched element by selector. every element could use the friendly api listed below.

browser.elements(selector).count(coundHandler)

Get count of all matched elements.

browser.elements('input').count(function (count) {
  count.should.equal(6)
})

browser.elements(selector).get(index, elemHandler)

Get the element in matched elements according to index.

browser.elements('input').get(0, function (elem) {
  elem.enter('hello world!')
  // elem.click()
})

browser.elements(selector).initialized

Get the status that all elements is initialized or not.

browser.elements(selector).init(initedHandler)

Initialize all elements and save inside. In initedHandler, initialized property will be updated to true. And you could change asyn-invoking to sync-invoking. For example,

browser.elements('input').init(function (elems) {
  this.initialized.should.be.true
  this.count().should.equal(6)
  this.get(0).enter('hello world')
  this.get(1).attr('name').should.equal('textbox')
  /\* ... \*/
})

browser.element(selector)

Get first matched element by selector.

browser.element(selector).click()

Click the element, the click method is also used for browser.input(), browser.dropdownlist() and browser.link() element.

browser.element(selector).value(valueHandler)

Get value for the the matched element's value attribute. It could used in browser.input(selector).value() as well.

browser.element('input#name').value(function (val) {
  val.should.equal('your name')
})

browser.element(selector).attr(attrName, attrHandler)

Get value of the matched element's attrubute with attribute name attrName.

browser.element('input[name="textbox"]').attr('name', function (attr) {
  attr.should.equal('textbox')
})

browser.element(selector).css(propertyName, valueHandler)

Get css value of the matched element's css property with name propertyName.

browser.element('input[name="textbox"]').css('font-family', function (property) {
  property.should.equal('Georgia')
})

browser.element(selector).text(textHandler)

Get the innerText of the matched element.

browser.element('body').text(function (text) {
  text.should.contain('hello world!')
})

browser.element(selector).html(htmlHandler)

Get the innerHTML of the matched element.

browser.element('body').html(function (html) {
  html.should.contain('<p>hello world!</p>')
})

browser.element(selector).isEnabled(enabledHandler)

Get value for the matched element's status.

browser.element('input#btn').isEnabled(function (enabledStatus) {
  enabledStatus.should.be.false
})

browser.element(selector).isVisible(displayedHandler)

Get value for visibility of element.

browser.element('#displayed').isVisible(function (displayed) {
  displayed.should.be.false
})

browser.input(selector)

Get first matched input element by selector, it includes textbox, checkbox, radio etc...

browser.input(selector).enter(text)

Enter text into matched textbox.

browser.input(selector).value(valueHandler)

Get value of matched textbox

browser.input(selector).check()

Check matched checkbox.

browser.input(selector).uncheck()

Uncheck matched checkbox.

browser.input(selector).isChecked(checkedHandler)

Get the checked status.

browser.input('input#checkbox').isChecked(function (checked) {
  checked.should.be.true
})

browser.input(selector).select()

Select matched radio button.

browser.input(selector).isSeleced(selectedHandler)

Get the selected status. Same as isChecked.

browser.dropdownlist(selector)

Get first matched select element by selector.

browser.dropdownlist(selector).option(val1/, val2 ... /)

Select these options with the valus in arguments. If the dropdownlist couldn't be multi-selected, the option with the last value would be selected.

browser.dropdownlist(selector).value(valueHandler)

Get the value for matched dropdownlist.

browser.dropdownlist(selector).values(valuesHandler)

For the multi-selected dropdownlist, it will return array of values.

browser.dropdownlist(selector).values(function (values) {
  values.should.eql([2, 3])
})

browser.button(label [, partial])

Get first matched button by label, other methods are then available. Set partial to true for partial button label match.

browser.content('Some tag content' [, 'elementTag', partialMatch ])

Find an element by content and tag (optional). Performs a full text match and uses xpath under the hood. Argument 3 allows for a partial match and defaults to false.

browser.link(selector)

Use css selector to find the matched link

browser.link(partialLinkText)

ONLY FOR LINK

browser.link(':contains("Partial Link Text")').click()

browser.exec(script, args, callback)

browser.exec('alert("hello world!");', function() {
  browser.dialog().text(function (text) {
    text.should.equal('hello world!')
  })
})

Use args

browser.exec('alert(arguments[0][0]);', ['hello!'], function() {
  browser.dialog().text(function (text) {
    text.should.equal('hello!')
  })
})

Use elements

browser.exec('alert(arguments[0][0].name);', browser.elements('input[type="checkbox"]')
browser.dialog().text(function (text) {
  text.should.equal('checkbox')
})

browser.execAsync(script, args, callback)

browser.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(5000)
browser.execAsync('var callback = arguments[arguments.length - 1];setTimeout(function(){ callback(10); }, 500);', function(num) {
  num.should.equal(10)
})

Use args

browser.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(5000)
browser.execAsync('var callback = arguments[arguments.length - 1];var str = arguments[0][0]; setTimeout(function(){ callback(str); }, 500);', ['hello world'], function(str) {
  str.should.equal('hello world')
});

Use elements

browser.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(5000)
browser.execAsync('var callback = arguments[arguments.length - 1];var elem = arguments[0][0]; setTimeout(function(){ callback(elem); }, 500);', browser.elements('input[type="checkbox"]'), function(element) {
  element.attr('name', function(name) {
    name.should.equal('checkbox')
  })
})

Alert API

browser.dialog()

Get the dialog which could be alert, confirm, prompt dialog.

browser.dialog().text(textHandler)

Get the text on the dialog.

browser.dialog().accept(thenHandler)

Accept(Ok) the confirm and prompt dialog.

browser.dialog().dismiss(thenHandler)

Dismiss(Cancel) the alert, confirm and prompt dialog.

browser.dialog().enter(text, thenHandler)

Enter text in prompt dialog.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

2.0.0 2014-11-08

Release of 2.0.0
Breaking change isDisplayed is now isVisible due to #4 1.8.1 2014-11-08
Fix issue #3 1.8.0 2014-09-25
Update selenium standalone server to 2.43.1

1.6.0 2014-05-28

Support partial button label matching

1.5.1 2014-05-15

Support more complex partial matches with child nodes in browser.content

1.5.0 2014-05-15

Add support for partial match in browser.content

1.4.0 2014-05-15

Add method browser.content('content', [, 'elementTag' ])

1.3.0 2014-05-14

Add support for browser.button(label) selector

1.2.0 2014-05-12

Removed Mr Async as a dependency and switched to async to solve and amdefine issue

1.0.0 2014-04-28

Forked from original repository
Added coffee-script as a dependency
Updated tests to kick off a selenium server

0.2.1 2013-10-20 Add exec and execAsync JavaScript support

0.2.0 2013-10-20 Add dialog behaviors

0.1.0 2013-10-17 MVP

Original Project

Originally forked from https://github.com/winsonwq/webrdirver-helper.git

Forked as there was a lack of communication from the original developer and we required patches to be added.

Thanks to Wang Qiu for creating a great library upon which we could build.

License

MIT

Files

README.md

Latest commit

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