Docs

Available at ghostly.readthedocs.org

Installation

You can install ghostly either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from github.

To install using pip;

pip install ghostly

From github;

$ pip install git+https://github.com/alexhayes/ghostly.git

Usage

You can use use this package outside of Django however it has limited use.

Essentially there are two components, as follows;

• Ghostly - A lightweight wrapper and helper methods for Selenium Webdriver. Presently it provides a handful of methods that utilise xpath to deal with a page, such as xpath, xpath_wait et al.

• GhostlyDjangoTestCase - A lightweight test case that extends StaticLiveServerTestCase and sets up an instance of Ghostly. It provides methods such as assertCurrentUrl, assertXpathEqual et al.

GhostlyDjangoTestCase

GhostlyDjangoTestCase inherits StaticLiveServerTestCase and thus fires up a WSGI server that handles requests.

Given you have a named URL home with a <h1>Hello World</h1> visible in the source, you can do the following;

class MyTestCase(GhostlyDjangoTestCase):

    def test_homepage(self):
        self.goto(reverse('home'))

        # Assert that an element is equal to something
        self.assertXpathEqual('//h1', 'Hello World')

        # Assert the current url, relative or absolute
        self.assertCurrentUrl('/home')

Working with SVG

To traverse SVG with Selenium web driver you must use xpath.

class MyTestCase(GhostlyDjangoTestCase):

    def test_homepage(self):
        self.goto(reverse('home'))

        # Click on an element, or example, in an SVG.
        self.ghostly.xpath_click('//*[@id="refresh"]')

        # Assert that an Xpath is equal to something
        self.assertXpathEqual('//h2', 'Hello World')

        # Wait for xpath to exist
        self.ghostly.xpath_wait('//div[@id="something"]')

History

This package started out as a simple way to construct browser tests using YAML, written by Brenton Cleeland.

The focus of this fork is to allow the developer to write programmatic unit tests in the style of unittest.

Currently this fork does not contain any of the CSS selector style methods that were originally available as the focus has been on xpath only support until a more robust CSS selector toolkit can be provided.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.

Author

• Alex Hayes <alex@commoncode.com>

• Brenton Cleeland <brenton@commoncode.com>