mulyoved/testcafe-react-selectors

TesCafe selector extensions for React apps.

testcafe-react-selectors

This plugin provides selector extensions that make it easier to test ReactJS components with TestCafe. These extensions allow you to select page elements in a way that is native to React.

Install

$ npm install testcafe-react-selectors

Usage

Create selectors for ReactJS components

ReactSelector allows you to select page elements by the name of the component class or the nested component element.

Suppose you have the following JSX.

<TodoApp className="todo-app">
    <TodoInput />
    <TodoList>
        <TodoItem priority="High">Item 1</TodoItem>
        <TodoItem priority="Low">Item 2</TodoItem>
    </TodoList>   
    
    <div className="items-count">Items count: <span>{this.state.itemCount}</span></div>
</TodoApp>

To get a root DOM element for a component, pass the component name to the ReactSelector constructor.

import ReactSelector from 'testcafe-react-selector';

const todoInput = ReactSelector('TodoInput');

To obtain a nested component or DOM element, you can use a combined selector or add DOM element's tag name.

import ReactSelector from 'testcafe-react-selector';

const TodoList         = ReactSelector('TodoApp TodoList');
const itemsCountStatus = ReactSelector('TodoApp div');
const itemsCount       = ReactSelector('TodoApp div span');

Warning: if you specify a DOM element’s tag name, React selectors search for the element among the component’s children without looking into nested components. For instance, for the JSX above the ReactSelector('TodoApp div') selector will be equal to Selector('.todo-app > div').

Selectors returned by ReactSelector( selector ) are recognized as TestCafe selectors. You can combine them with regular selectors and filter with .withText, .nth, .find and other functions. To search for elements within a component, you can use the following combined approach.

import ReactSelector from 'testcafe-react-selector';

var itemsCount = ReactSelector('TodoApp').find('.items-count span');

Let’s use the API described above to add a task to a Todo list and check that the number of items changed.

import ReactSelector from 'testcafe-react-selector';

fixture `TODO list test`
	.page('http://localhost:1337');

test('Add new task', async t => {
    const todoTextInput = ReactSelector('TodoInput');
    const todoItem      = ReactSelector('TodoList TodoItem');

    await t
        .typeText(todoTextInput, 'My Item')
        .pressKey('enter')
        .expect(todoItem.count).eql(3);
});

Obtaining component's props and state

As an alternative to testcafe snapshot properties, you can obtain state or props of a ReactJS component. You can use them in an assertion directly thus simplifying assertion logic.

To obtain component properties and state, use the React selector’s .getReact() method.

If you call this method with zero parameters, it returns an object of the following structure.

{
    props: <component_props>,
    state: <component_state>
}

Where props are React component properties excluding properties of its children, state – the state of the component.

Example

import ReactSelector from 'testcafe-react-selector';

fixture `TODO list test`
	.page('http://localhost:1337');

test('Check list item', async t => {
    const el = ReactSelector('TodoList');

    await t.expect(el.getReact().props.priority).eql('High');
    await t.expect(el.getReact().state.isActive).eql(false);
});

As an alternative, the .getReact() method can take a function that returns the required property or state. This function acts as a filter. Its argument is an object returned by .getReact(), i.e. { props: ..., state: ...}.

ReactSelector('Component').getReact(({ props, state }) => {...})

Example

import ReactSelector from 'testcafe-react-selector';

fixture `TODO list test`
    .page('http://localhost:1337');

test('Check list item', async t => {
    const el = ReactSelector('TodoList');

    await t
        .expect(el.getReact(({ props }) => props.priority)).eql('High')
        .expect(el.getReact(({ state }) => state.isActive)).eql(false);
});

The .getReact() method can be called for the ReactSelector or the snapshot this selector returns.

Limitations

testcafe-react-selectors support ReactJS starting with version 15. ReactSelector can only find components inherited from React.Component. To check if a component can be found, use the react-dev-tools extension. Search for a component starts from the root React component, so selectors like ReactSelector('body MyComponent') will return null.