Hookah

Remember the baaje le tanne hookah? We do remember it at YIPL.

Hookah is a small smoke testing command line library for any web application. As it is just a sanity check it checks if the given URL returns back the right response code, and body is not empty. By the time you listen to this hookah mero song by Karma band the test would usually finish running. Basically it is like the baaje (grandfather) in the above picture testing your application, he does not know to click stuff, fill form etc he just says did he see content or a white page. That's smoke testing for you.

If you wish to do other behavior level testing then Behat/Mink or CasperJs can be used.

Build Status

It does not have tests for itself but it will check one of the websites provided in config. For example a Drupal 7 test installation status is below:

Prerequisites

You will need PHP installed on your system and have composer running, the package depends on PHPUnit and Goutte 2.x. Goutte depends on Guzzle.

Install

Hookah can be cloned after from this github repository and installed following the procedure given below:

• git clone [email protected]:younginnovations/hookah.git
• cd hookah
• composer install --prefer-dist

Run

The app can be run with the command below:

• install the application dependencies using command: composer install
• then run ./vendor/bin/phpunit

It should pass like below given you have internet :)

How fast it runs will depend on your internet speed as it tries to get around 7 URLs from this test Drupal 7 installation.

Run tests faster

You can run the tests faster with paratest with the command below:

./vendor/bin/paratest -f --colors -m 2 -p 4 tests 

It took like half the time on local machine.

Docker

Do not have PHP installed in your system? No problems. If you have docker installed run the following commands on project root to run Hookah:

• docker pull geshan/php-composer-alpine
• docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www geshan/php-composer-alpine "composer install --prefer-dist"
• docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www geshan/php-composer-alpine "./vendor/bin/phpunit --version"
• docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www geshan/php-composer-alpine "./vendor/bin/phpunit"

The first command will pull the container from docker hub registry, it is only~40 MB of data. The second command will install all the composer dependencies from the container.

The third command is optional, it will just print the phpunit version. The fourth command will run the tests from within the docker container.

Structure

The application is structured in a very simple way in tests\Smoke folder.

Smoke folder contains other 2 folders

• FrontEnd: to test response codes of front end user visible part of the website/web application without logging in.
• BackEnd: to test areas of the website/web application accessible after logging in.

The structure can be changed as this application now is a proof of concept to smoke test inspired by this blog post (the code has been written differently following PSR-2 and newer libraries, still the essence is same).

Settings

You can set the base URL at BaseTestCase.php and users of the application at BaseUserTestCase.php constructor method. like

public function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct($name, $data, $dataName);

    $this->baseUrl = 'http://drupal-test.jelastic.elastx.net/'; //change this to your application URL, remember the trailing slash
}

You can add your frontend paths in providerFrontEnd method in the PagesTest.Case extended from BaseTestCase.php file like below:

     return [
                [$this->baseUrl, 200],
                ['about', 200],
                ['not-existing', 404],
                ['.git', 403],
            ];

It uses php unit data providers to take each of them to run the test case for front end tests.

The backend part is there too. The settings can be found in AdminUserTest extending BaseUserTestCase class, providerBackEndPaths method like below:

    $adminPaths = [
        ['admin', 200],
        ['admin/config', 200],
        ['not-existing', 404]
    ];

The tests are for now done for http://drupal-test.jelastic.elastx.net/ for proof of concept, it is advised to hit the staging servers for smoke test than live servers depending on the need.

Coding Conventions

We follow PSR-2 even to write tests.

Integration with travis

It can be integrated with travis CI to run the test on each push check the .travis.yml file in root of this project. It can be integrated in the same way with other CI systems too.