Alternative to CasperJS for use with Cucumber.js-open source projects n1k0/casperjs

9 years ago

admin

1 minute

After lots of research and trial and error I have chosen the following stack for Frontend BDD testing:

Cucumber.js
CasperJS (through SpookyJS)
PhantomJS

I would like to avoid CasperJS run queues and use PhantomJS directly (through phantom-proxy) with callbacks in each step:

@World = (cb) ->
    @phantom = require "phantom-proxy"
    cb()

@Before (cb) ->
    self = this
    @phantom.create {}, (proxy) ->
        self.proxy = proxy
        self.page = proxy.page
        cb()

@After (cb) ->
    @proxy.end ->
        cb()

@When /^I go to url "([^"]*)"$/, (url, cb) ->
    @page.open url, ->
        cb()

making the whole more logical and BDD-like.

Additionally, SpookyJS doesn’t provide a full API for CasperJS.

The PhantomJS API, however, is quite low-level. Is there any other tool that provides CasperJS-like functionality (clicking, waiting for elements, etc) for Node.js without using run queues?