CasperJS test cli hooks example

Howto.md

Put test1.js and test2.js into a tests/ directory, then run the suite:

$ casperjs test tests/ --pre=pre.js --includes=inc.js --post=post.js
Test file: /Users/nperriault/tmp/pre-inc/pre.js                                 
Hey, I'm executed before the suite.
Test file: /Users/nperriault/tmp/pre-inc/tests/test1.js                         
# this is test 1
Hi, I've been included.
PASS Subject is strictly true
Test file: /Users/nperriault/tmp/pre-inc/tests/test2.js                         
# this is test 2
Hi, I've been included.
PASS Subject is strictly true
Test file: /Users/nperriault/tmp/pre-inc/post.js                                
Hey, I'm executed after the suite.
PASS 2 tests executed, 2 passed, 0 failed.                                      

A more colorful output:

inc.js

casper.sayHi = function sayHi() {
    this.echo("Hi, I've been included.");
};

post.js

casper.echo("Hey, I'm executed after the suite.");
casper.test.done();

pre.js

casper.echo("Hey, I'm executed before the suite.");
casper.test.done();

test1.js

casper.test.comment('this is test 1');
casper.sayHi();
casper.test.assertTrue(true);
casper.test.done();

test2.js

casper.test.comment('this is test 2');
casper.sayHi();
casper.test.assertTrue(true);
casper.test.done();

How come I don't need casper.start or casper.run?

Yes, what is the deal with start/run? It seems if I take a bunch of scripts that have start/run in them, and drop them in a folder, casper stops after executing the first script.

Just got it working. If there is no "star"t, do not use "run". If there is "star"t, you must include "run" to get the script running.

Just got it working. If there is no "star"t, do not use "run". If there is "star"t, you must include "run" to get the script running.

Maybe this is stupidly obvious but exit() will stop the tests midway too. Calling it on your last test is fine though.

casperjs test ./tests/* --cookies-file=/tmp/cookie.txt and variations on the path do not run more than the first file. Casper v1.0.2. Is this a bug?

root@SM-DATA:/home/imedia# ls tests/
1st-ut-login.js  ut-properties.js

@myimedia same for me - casperjs test tests only runs the first script found.

i have the same problem it runs only the first script

Are there any news about it ? Or maybe a bypass ?

in my case i was able to run multiple files in a folder (as documented by CasperJS - i.e. test.begin, casper.start, casper.run), but only when I removed casper = require('casper').create.

If it helps anyone else who ends up here, this is what I felt was missing on this page - an example with casper.start and casper.run in it.

pre.js (which I was using for login purposes)

var url = casper.cli.options.url;
casper.start(url, function() {
  // do things
});

// casper.then do other things

casper.run(function() {
  this.test.done();
});

somefileInTheMiddle.js

// variables do not carry over from one file to the next
var url = casper.cli.options.url;

casper.start(url, function() {
  // pretty much like pre.js
});

// casper.waitFor, etc...

casper.run(function() {
  this.test.done();
});

post.js

// nothing else to see here
casper.run();

Be aware that --post will run only once after all test, all files are do. Not after the suite() function

You may change line one to:

casperjs test --pre=pre.js --includes=inc.js --post=post.js test*.js

if anyone else runs into this, what fixed it for me was setting this.test.done() at the end of each test instead of this.exit() as someone else pointed out above...

Thanks for the sample, guys.

I try to use --includes option and it does not act as expected: "will include the foo.js and bar.js files before each test file execution". One only include is performed, before pre scripts. Here is the sample code with customized inc.js:

casper.echo("Hey, I should be included before each test file.");
casper.sayHi = function sayHi() {
    this.echo("Hi, I've been included.");
}

Echo phrase is shown only once in output:

Hey, I should be included before each test file.
Test file: /home/alex/work/github/tmp_casperjs_includes/pre.js                  
Hey, I'm executed before the suite.
Test file: /home/alex/work/github/tmp_casperjs_includes/tests/test1.js          
# this is test 1
Hi, I've been included.
PASS Subject is strictly true
Test file: /home/alex/work/github/tmp_casperjs_includes/tests/test2.js          
# this is test 2
Hi, I've been included.
PASS Subject is strictly true
Test file: /home/alex/work/github/tmp_casperjs_includes/post.js                 
Hey, I'm executed after the suite.
PASS 2 tests executed in 0.061s, 2 passed, 0 failed, 0 dubious, 0 skipped.   

Doing this with --engine=slimejs fails to open multiple tests, it only runs one test. Any way we can run multiple tests using SlimerJS?

Anyway we can open multiple test cases in the SlimerJS ?