data-driven test framework with Socialtext wiki as repository

Socialtext has a tradition of having "Wiki Wednesday" once a month, where people hack little wiki-related projects.

I had a little Wiki Wednesday myself today. Socialtext wikis have a very nice (and not very well documented) REST API. I've been figuring out to use this API in Ruby. I got to the point today where I could read and write pages to the wiki, so I hacked up a little framework using Watir that reads test data from one page and updates another page with the results of the tests.

Wiki markup makes parsing the data really easy, and the REST API makes updating pages really easy.

@test_data_page looks like
| Google Test | Google | Google Search | I'm Feeling Lucky |
This displays as a table in the wiki.

It's in dire need of some refactoring. Reading pages with more than one line of test data is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)

If you want to muck around with it yourself, you could get a free account from socialtext, or try the open source version or the VMWare image.

require 'net/http'
require 'test/unit'
require 'watir'
include Watir

class TC_goog < Test::Unit::TestCase
def test_goog

@user = 'user@socialtext.com'
@pass = 'password'
@host = 'mineral.socialtext.net'
@port = '33333'
@test_data_page = "/data/workspaces/admin/pages/testdata"
@test_result_page = "/data/workspaces/admin/pages/testresults"
@test_results = ""

  def get_page(loc)
    http = Net::HTTP.new(@host, @port)
    http.start do |http|
    request =
      Net::HTTP::Get.new(loc,initheader = {'Accept' => 'text/x.socialtext-wiki'})
    request.basic_auth @user, @pass
    response = http.request(request)
    response.value
    @page = response.body
    end
    return @page
  end

  def put_page
    req = Net::HTTP::Put.new(@test_result_page, initheader = {'Content-Type' => 'text/x.socialtext-wiki'})
    req.basic_auth @user, @pass
    req.body = @test_results
    response = Net::HTTP.new(@host, @port).start {|http| http.request(req) }
      puts "Response #{response.code} #{response.message}:
    #{response.body}"
  end

get_page(@test_data_page)
puts @page

test_data = @page.split("|")
test_name = test_data[1]
page_title = test_data[2]
button_name1 = test_data[3]
button_name2 = test_data[4]

ie = IE.new
ie.goto("http://www.google.com")

@test_results << @page
@test_results << "|" + test_name
  begin
    assert_equal(page_title,ie.title)
    @test_results << "|PASS"
  rescue 
    @test_results << "|FAIL"
  end 
  
  begin
    assert_equal(button_name2, ie.button(:name, "btnG").value)
    @test_results << "|PASS"
    rescue 
    @test_results << "|FAIL"
    end
    
  begin
    assert_equal(button_name2, ie.button(:name, "btnI").value)
    @test_results << "|PASS"
    rescue 
    @test_results << "|FAIL"
  end
  
  @test_results << "|"
  puts @test_results

put_page

end 
end