bobhoskinsbrother/testcast

Spike for screencasting automated acceptance tests

TestCast

This project is a JUnit 5 extension.

There are some useful annotations here:

@TestCast

Please check out uk.co.itstherules.examples.ExampleTestCastTest

What does this do? It records the screen and drops out an AVI video For the example above it will drop out a video -> ./reports/uk.co.itstherules.examples.ExampleTestCastTest.canCaptureBrowsingGoogle.avi Useful if you want to record the browser for intermittently failing frontend tests

@SnapShot

Please check out uk.co.itstherules.examples.ExampleSnapShotTest

What does this do? It snap-shots the screen and drops out an jpg file when the test fails or has an error For the example above it will drop out a jpg -> ./reports/uk.co.itstherules.examples.ExampleSnapShotTest.canCaptureOnFailure.jpg Useful if you want to screen-grab the browser for intermittently failing frontend tests

@ScreenCast

ScreenCast is a little different.
I had this wacky idea a few years ago that instead of doing boring tutorial videos for your webapp, you could use happy path tests to document your key flows.
What this @ScreenCast annotation does is start a desktop notification service in the background, which you can push either a splash-screen graphic, or a message to display on the screen. The notifier will pause the action so you will have enough time to read the text.

Please check out uk.co.itstherules.examples.ExampleScreenCastTest

It's a fairly complete example.
The Notifier built in is client / server based, and can also be configured to run remotely.

Still to do: I'd like to write a "fast" and "record" mode where you can use the same tests to both test the flow and drop out a tutorial video.