Phrill: a web application test helper thingy

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Phrill is a tool for web application testing, based on Twill.

Phrill works with the scriptable web browser component of Simpletest, exposing (a subset of) it's functionality via a mini-language.

Phrill doesn't yet do form submissions or authentication!

Phrill generates Simpletest test case output when provided with a file of Phrill commands. It also provides an interpreter mode that allows interactive testing and generation of command files.

Please send suggestions and bug reports to jonathon.ramsey@gmail.com

A sample session:

$ ./phrill
>> go http://babylon.idlevice.co.uk
>> follow php/
>> follow phrill/
>> code 200
>> find Phrill
>> find "not there"
FAIL: No match for /not there/ in page source
>> commands command.list

The last input here, >> commands outfile, outputs all commands run in this interpreter session into an output file, command.list.

The help command will

We can then use the code generator to create a Simpletest test case:

$ ./phrill -i commands.list
<?php
class Phrill_outfile extends WebTestCase {
  function test_outfile() {
    $this->addHeader("User-Agent: Phrill/0.1.0 (http://babylon.idlevice.co.uk/php/phrill/)");
    $this->get("http://babylon.idlevice.co.uk");
    $this->click("php/");
    $this->click("phrill/");
    $this->assertResponse(200);
    $this->assertWantedPattern("/Phrill/");
    $this->assertWantedPattern("/not there/");
  }
}
?>

The test case can be written directly to a file:

$ ./phrill -i commands.list -o simpletest.output.php

Other command line options are listed with:

$ ./phrill --help

Phrill is released under the GNU General Public License, see the file COPYING for details.