Plugins - spider_test
Add to favoritesIt performs a few valuable tasks for you:
- parses the html of every page, so if you have invalid html, you will be warned.
- finds every link to within your site and follows it, whether static or dynamic.
- finds every Ajax.Updater link and follows it.
- finds every form and tries to submit it, filling in values where possible.
This is helpful in determining:
- missing static pages (.html)
- poor code coverage - forgot to test a file? Don't wait for a user to find it.
- simple fuzzing of form values.
- automated testing of form paths. Often we have forms which point to incorrect
locations, and up until now this has been impossible to test in an automated fashion
or without being strongly coupled to your code.
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USAGE
$ script/plugin install svn://caboo.se/plugins/court3nay/spider_test
$ script/generate integration_test spider_test
http://sample.caboo.se/plugins/court3nay/spider_test
svn://caboo.se/plugins/court3nay/spider_test
Testing
In response to the previous commenter, the amount of reading the code necessary to get this to work is ~5 minutes. Very useful plugin.
Don't even try this plugin. The documentation is definitely out of date and no amount of reading the code and "fixing" things in it would make it work.
I love the idea of this plugin, but I wasn't able to get it to do anything useful w/o spending effort on it. When including the mixin, you need to include the module Caboose::SpiderIntegrator (update the docs?). Also, the call to the method spider() does not take two args - maybe default the third arg to {}, or update the documentation? When I got the test to run the output didn't really tell me very much:
Started . Finished in 1.354948 seconds.
1 tests, 2 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
cheers, Haakon