Integration tests for CollectionSpace using cucumber-jvm, selenium, and jUnit

• Java 7
• Maven
• A running CollectionSpace instance. These tests are set to run against an external CollectionSpace instance. By default this is located at http://localhost:8180, however you could easily run it against the CollectionSpace Demo

git clone https://github.com/bibliotechy/cspace-cucumber.git

cd cspace-cucumber

mvn clean verify

Then watch all the tests pass.

If adding a feature for a record or authority, you'll need to:

• create new cucumber files
• cucumber feature
• integration test class
• create a new class that extends Record
• Update the utils method for dynamically instantiating your new class

Below we'll step through the example of creating a Place authority record.

First we'll need to create the cucumber test class for the Place Authority, which runs the test, and the cucumber feature file which defines the steps to be followed in the testing, using the gherkin syntax. Cucumber uses file name conventions to relate these files, so the packagers and base file names need to be the same, with classes in src/test/java and feature files in src/test/resources. So for our Place test, we'll the full paths where we need to add files are:

• Cucumber Feature - src/test/resources/org/collectionspace.qa.cucumber/place/PlaceAuthority.feature
• Integration Test Class - src/test/java/org/collectionspace.qa.cucumber/place/PlaceAuthorityIT.java

A simple cucumber feature for Place Authority at src/test/resources/org/collectionspace.qa.cucumber/place/PlaceAuthority.feature would look like:

@place
Feature: Place Authority Data Entry
   As a logged in admin user 
   I want to be able to enter data in the Place authority form 
   
  Scenario: User Creates a minimal Basic Place record
    Given user is on the "Create New" page
     And selects the "Place" radio button on the Create New page
     And clicks on the Create button
    Then the titlebar should contain "Local Places"
     And user enters "New York" in the "Place" "Display Name" field
     And the user saves the record
    Then the record is successfully saved
    Then "New York" should be in the "Place" "Display Name" field

Each file has a single feature that can contain many Scenarios.

Each line that starts with Given, And, or Then needs to have a corresponding Step Definition with a regular expression that matches the line, with words in quotes being passed as variables. All the lines we wrote in our feature are all already defined in the shared step definitions, so this is all we need to do for our feature. More information is in the Step Definitions section.

The integration test class for Place Authority at src/test/java/org/collectionspace.qa.cucumber/place/PlaceAuthorityIT.java is all boilerplate, but required. It should look something like:

package org.collectionspace.qa.cucumber.place;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        # "glue" tells Cucumber where to look for step definitions
        glue = { "org.collectionspace.qa.cucumber.stepDefinitions" }, 
        format = { "json:target/report.json" }
)
public class PlaceAuthorityIT {
}

More @CucumberOptions are documented on the cucumber project site.

Next we'll create a Place class that extends the Record class, which will be used to store information about fields in that class, such as selectors to use to operate on fields, labels, and values to add when filling in fields. By convention, these files go into src/test/java/org/collectionspace/qa/records. So if we create src/test/java/org/collectionspace/qa/records/Place.java it would look like:

package org.collectionspace.qa.records;

public class Place extends Record {

    public Place(){
        
        fieldSelectorByLabel.put("Display Name", "csc-placeAuthority-termDisplayName");
        requiredMap.put("csc-placeAuthority-termDisplayName","No place like Home");
    }
}

Finally, we need to update the loadRecordOfType(String recordType) method, to include a "Place" case in the switch statement.

 public static Record loadRecordOfType(String recordType) throws Exception{
     Record record;
     switch (recordType) {
         case "Person":
             record = new Person();
             break;
         case "Cataloging":
             record = new Cataloging();
             break;
         case "Place":
             record = new Place();
             break;
         default:
             throw new Exception(recordType + ": No classes of that Type known");
     }
     return record;
 }

With that in place, we can now run our new test feature. Since we annotated the place feature with the @place tag, we can just run our new test:

mvn clean verify -Dcucumber.options="--tags @place"

@TODO Add some text about the expected output

Each line that starts with Given, And, or Then needs to have a corresponding Step Definition with a regular expression that matches the line, with words in quotes being passed as variables.

For example

Given user is on the "Create New" page

corresponds to the Step Definition:

@Given("^user is on the \"([^\"]*)\" page$")
public void user_is_on_page(String pageName) throws Throwable {
   driver.get(BASE_URL + pages.getPageUrls(pageName));
   wait.until(elementToBeClickable(
      By.className(pages.getPageLoadedSelector(pageName))));
    }

The step definitions can re used by any Feature because they are defined in a separate package at src/test/java/org/collectionspace/qa/cucumber/stepDefinitions/StepDefs.java

The Record class which other record classes extend, instantiates several HashMaps to contain information needed to interact with record forms. They are broken out to accommodate different ways field types need to be handled. They are:

• requiredMap - contains id selector and test data for fields that are required for that record type.
• fieldMap - contains id selector and test data for text fields for that record type.
• selectMap - contains id selector and test data for <select> fields.
• vocabMap - contains id selector and test data for vocabulary fields.
• dateMap - contains id selector and test date for calendar date fields.
• tickBoxMap - contains id selector and test date for tick box fields.
• fieldSelectorByLabel - contains label name and id selector for fields. Allows fields to be interacted with by their label, which is only required for a small subset.

The class also exposes getter classes for each HashMap.

Cucumber allows you to pass in a "tags" option that will limit testing to only those features or scenarios that have that tag. For example, to only run the Place authority tests, you can run:

mvn clean verify -Dcucumber.options="--tags @place"

By convention, each Feature is started with an tag annotation, such as @place, @person, etc., to simplify running single tests. Similarly, if you only want to run a single Scenario, perhaps during the development process, just add a @test tag at the start of the scenario and pass the @test tag to maven on the cli.

• Maven+Cucu
• Cucumber reference - language agnostic
• Cucumber-jvm
• Gherkin Syntax