Testing web apps with Go

• Install
• Run
• Config format

Install app using git clone command

After install build app with go build

In app directory create a config folder.

App runs from command line:

> ./appname [parameters]

Available command line parameters:

• -config - mandatory, name of config, which is path in app's /config path
• -type - optional, type of config file, currently allowed types (json and sitemapxml), json is default,
• -filename - optional, custom name of config file without extension, by default it's "conf"
• -verbose - optional, output more / less data when tests are run, available values: (n, y), y by default

Examples:

• Test urls from ./config/mysite/conf.json config file

> ./appname -config=mysite

• Test urls from ./config/myothersite/conf.xml xml-config file

> ./appname -config=myothersite -type=sitemapxml

• Test urls from ./config/mysite/conf.json config file and output only fail messages

> ./appname -config=mysite -verbose=n

• Test urls from ./config/mysite/urls.json config file

> ./appname -config=mysite -filename=urls

App supports config files in json and xml formats.

json format is as follows:

{
    "protocol": "https",
    "domain":   "www.mysite.com",
    "checkUrls": true,
    "urls": [
        {
            "url": "/url/here",
            "statusCode": 200,
            "skipUrlsCheck": false,
            "findElements": []
        },
        {
            "url": "/url/here",
            "statusCode": 200,
            "findElements": [
                {
                    "def": ".some-class",
                    "countType": "eq",
                    "count": 3
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Where:

• protocol can be either http or https

• checkUrls option tells to check all local links on pages

• skipUrlsCheck cancels checkUrls and all links on this concrete page will not be checked

• findElements will find on this concrete page elements defined by following objects

• def definition of collection objects to search (like jQuery selectors)

• countType - mode of comparing collection size against count, available modes are

  • eq - equals
  • gt - greater than
  • gte - greater than or equals
  • lt - less than
  • lte - less than or equals
  • ne - not equals

• count - expected collection size

xml format fully supports google sitemap xml, but has less oppotunities than json.