macrombilux/test-automation-challenge

Test automation challenge

This project is part of the 'Test Automation Without the Headache' workshop. It contains a simple web application with some horribly bad automated tests, and allows workshop participants to explore some better ways of automating tests.

The application allows two types of access - administrators can create user accounts and items, but cannot purchase anything. Regular users cannot create any items or accounts, but they can put items into a shopping cart, check out and top-up their balance. The orders will fail if users do not have enough money in their account. (Note the code is intentionally buggy, to demonstrate the effects of good tests).

Prerequisites

• NodeJS (at least 4.3)
• A modern web browser (ideally Chrome)

Setting up

• run npm install to get all the dependencies

Using the web app

• Run npm start to start the web application on https://localhost:3000.
• Sign in as the administrator, with the username admin and password admin.
• Create some user accounts in the web site -- the password will always be the same as the username.
• You can use the following test credit card numbers:

expected outcome	number
Insufficient funds	5555555555554444
Server is offline	4242424242424242
Payment successful	4000000000000077

Running tests

Run all the tests:

npm test

Run a subset of tests:

npm test -- filter='some part of the test name'

(note the space between -- and filter).

For example, to execute all the tests containing the phrase account balance in the name, use the following command line:

npm test -- filter='account balance'

Links for more information on the tools

• Zombie.js, "Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js"
• Jasmine, "Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code."
• Express, "Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js"