grunt-casper-runner

With this grunt.js task you can run tests with CasperJS. Fork of grunt-casperjs by @ronaldlokers

Getting Started

First Install CasperJS.

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

1npm install grunt-casperjs --save-dev

One the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

1grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-casperjs');

The "casperjs" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named casperjs to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

1grunt.initConfig({
2  casper_runner: {
3    options: {
4      // Task-specific options go here.
5    },
6    your_target: {
7      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
8    }
9  }
10})

Usage Examples

Default Options

1grunt.initConfig({
2  casper_runner: {
3    options: {
4      async: {
5        parallel: false
6      }
7    },
8    files: {
9      pre: ['tests/pre/**/*.js'], // optional field to allow certain tests to run first.
10      tests: ['tests/casperjs/**/*.js'],
11      post: ['tests/post/**/*.js'] // optional field to allow certain tests to run last.
12    }
13  },
14})

Async Parallel

By default, tests are run in series. If your tests are independent, you can run them in parallel.

1casper_runner: {
2  options: {
3    async: {
4      parallel: true
5    }
6  },
7  files: {
8    tests: ['tests/casperjs/**/*.js']
9  }
10}

CasperJS Options

CasperJS options (including user defined ones) can be passed in using 'casperjsOptions' in the options object

1casper_runner: {
2  options: {
3    casperjsOptions: ['--foo=bar', '--no-colors']
4  },
5  files: {
6    tests: ['tests/casperjs/**/*.js']
7  }
8}

Command-line args

Run without pre tests: --no-pre Run without post tests: --no-post Run specific test: --specific="test/your_test.js"

Install script and CasperJS version

The install.js script is responsible for searching for existing CasperJS installations in the path. If found, as of grunt-casperjs v1.2.0, that version of CasperJS will be used. If not found, a stable version of CasperJS will be installed (under review).

grunt-casperjs was tested with the currently stable version of CasperJS, 1.1.x

If you would like to use a different version of casperjs, install it yourself globally before installing grunt-casperjs. It will use that one.

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.

CHANGELOG

• 2.2.0 Add feature to allow pre and post tests to be run before main tests files. Add command line arg to run specific test file. Add command line arg to not run pre and/or post test files.
• 2.1.1 2nd fix for caspersjs dependency version number
• 2.0.1 Fix caspersjs dependency version number
• 2.0.1 Remove incorrect error message
• 2.0.0 Stop installing casperjs manually, let npm do it
• 1.5.0 Fix critical install issue - https://github.com/ronaldlokers/grunt-casperjs/issues/55
• 1.4.1 Lock to casper js version 1.0.3 instead of master (to be incremented soon)
• 1.4.0 Options can be passed into CasperJS. Any option.
• 1.3.0 Bump to using the latest version of CasperJs
• 1.2.1 CasperJS installations in path will be used
• 1.2.0 Cleaner fix for installing grunt
• 1.1.2 Fix for windows installation
• 1.1.1 Use latest version of PhantomJS ~1.9
• 1.0.10 Fix env-vars dumping
• 1.0.9 If user has local casperjs, use that first.
• 1.0.7 Options to run tests in parallel
• 1.0.5 Changelog started :)