UI test suites

ArchivesSpace’s staff and public interfaces use Selenium to run automated browser tests. These tests can be run using Firefox via geckodriver and Chrome (either regular Chrome or headless).

Firefox is the default. To install geckodriver on Ubuntu Linux:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.26.0/geckodriver-v0.26.0-linux64.tar.gz -O - | tar -xz
sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/

On Mac you can use: brew install geckodriver.

To run using Chrome, you must first download the appropriate ChromeDriver executable and place it somewhere in your OS system path. Mac users with Homebrew may accomplish this via brew cask install chromedriver.

Please note, you must have either Firefox or Chrome installed on your system to run these tests. Consult the Firefox WebDriver or ChromeDriver documentation to ensure your Selenium, driver, browser, and OS versions all match and support each other.

Before running:

Run the bootstrap build task to configure JRuby and all required dependencies:

 $ cd ..
 $ build/run bootstrap

Note: all example code assumes you are running from your ArchivesSpace project directory.

Running the tests:

#Frontend tests
./build/run frontend:selenium # Firefox, headless
FIREFOX_OPTS= ./build/run frontend:selenium # Firefox, no-opts = heady

SELENIUM_CHROME=true ./build/run frontend:selenium # Chrome, headless
SELENIUM_CHROME=true CHROME_OPTS= ./build/run frontend:selenium # Chrome, no-opts = heady

#Public tests
./build/run public:test # Firefox, headless
FIREFOX_OPTS= ./build/run public:test # Firefox, no-opts = heady

SELENIUM_CHROME=true ./build/run public:test # Chrome, headless
SELENIUM_CHROME=true CHROME_OPTS= ./build/run public:test # Chrome, no-opts = heady

Tests can be scoped to specific files or groups:

./build/run .. -Dspec='path/to/spec/from/spec/directory' # single file
./build/run .. -Dexample='[description from it block]' # specific block

#EXAMPLES
./build/run frontend:selenium -Dexample='Repository model'
FIREFOX_OPTS= ./build/run frontend:selenium -Dexample='Repository model'# Firefox, heady

./build/run public:test -Dspec='features/accessibility_spec.rb'
SELENIUM_CHROME=true CHROME_OPTS= ./build/run public:test -Dspec='features/accessibility_spec.rb' # Chrome, heady

Note, however, that some tests are dependent on a sequence of ordered steps and may not always run cleanly in isolation. In this case, more than the example provided may be run, and/or unexpected fails may result.