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Layout and functional testing framework for websites
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Galen is an open-source tool for testing layout and responsive design of web applications. It is also a powerfull functional testing framework. For more information visit http://galenframework.com
How does it work?
Galen Framework uses Selenium in order to open web browser and select the tested elements on page. It has a special language to describe the layout of web page for different browser sizes. You just need to define your own tags for devices and sizes and then using the galen spec language write checks for each element on page. The best way to test the layout is to check location and dimensions of elements relatively to each other. Here is a small example of basic syntax.
@objects header id header menu css #menu content id content side-panel id side-panel footer id footer = Main section = @on * header: inside screen 0px top, 0px left, 0px right menu: inside screen 0px left right below header 0px content: below menu 0px inside screen 0px left @on desktop side-panel: below menu 0px inside screen 0px right width 300px near content 0px right @on mobile content, side-panel: width 100% of screen/width side-panel: below content 0px
And here is a more advanced spec:
# example of using custom rules (functions) @set userMargin 5 to 10 px @objects user-* div.users-list .user @rule %{pattern} are below each other by %{distance} and aligned @forEach [pattern] as object, prev as prevObject ${object}: below ${prevObject} ${distance} aligned vertically all ${prevObject} = Checking all users = | user-* are below each other by ${userMargin} and aligned
Conditional statements:
@objects banner-container #banner-container = Banner section = @if ${isVisible("banner-container")} banner-container: image file imgs/banner.png, error 5%
For more information please read Galen Framework Documentation
Contributing
If you want to contribute to this project just look for current open issues. Please let know in the comments of the issue that you are going to pick it up because somebody could already work on it. In the end just send the pull request. By the way the feature that you are going to work on should not just solve your particular problem. It should be extendable and configurable. The github issues is the best place to debate on the feature and discuss how it should be implemented.
All the work on the next version is performed in corresponding release branch (e.g. release-2.5). The master branch reflects the current live version. Most of the pull requests are accepted on release branch and not on master.
If you would like to make a change to the Galen Framework website (http://galenframework.com) you can do it here https://github.com/galenframework/galenframework.com
Add GPG key to your maven settings.xml:
<properties> <gpg.keyname>C78F3CC4</gpg.keyname> <gpg.passphrase>Password</gpg.passphrase> ...
Setup the dependencies
mvn clean install
The test can be run via
mvn verify
To run integrations tests against chrome:
mvn clean verify -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/opt/dev/chromedriver -Dselenium.browser=chrome
Please ensure that you downloaded chromedriver, see here
Also you need Maven 3.3 or greater and Node with some modules:
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
sudo npm install -g bower
Building
This project is based on Maven. You can use both Intellij or Eclipse for it. It is being developed in Linux so all the assembling scripts are in bash. In order to assemble the dist with zip archives just run
./makeDist.sh
and it will create a dist folder with both binary and source folders and it will prepare zip archives there as well. If you want to quickly test the concept and install galen right after the assembling you can use script./assembleAndInstall.sh
. It usesmakeDist.sh
and then just invokessudo ./install.sh
Testing
There are two levels of testing. The first one is just the regular
mvn clean test
. But as there is a lot of Javascript code - you need Mocha. The tests are located in foldersrc/test/js/
. To run the just go to that folder and executetestJs.sh
License
Galen Framework is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0