A cross platform UI crawler which scans view trees then generate and execute UI test cases.

NoSmoke supports UI crawling and testing for iOS, Android and PC Web, macaca-reporter is used to gather and present the crawling process. During the execution of nosmoke, the current page and relevent action info will be revealed on reporter:

Refer to the crawler.config.yml file in the NoSmoke/public folder as a example. The structure of the configuration file can be described as below:

# 1. Initialization option
desiredCapabilities:
  platformName: 'platform iOS/Android'
  deviceName: 'name of the device'
  app: 'url for downloading app here'

# 2. Crawling option
crawlingConfig:
  platform: 'iOS'
  targetElements:
    loginAccount:
      actionType  : 'action type: 1-click; 2-input'
      searchValue : 'the value to search'
      actionValue : 'the value to input'
  exclusivePattern: 'pushView/popView'
  clickTypes: 
    - 'array of clickable UI types: StaticText/Button'
  editTypes:
    - 'array of editable UI types: SecureTextField/TextFiled'
  horizontalScrollTypes:
    - 'array of horizontal scrollable UI types: PageIndicator'
  verticalScrollTypes:
    - 'array of vertical scrollable UI types: ScrollView'
  tabBarTypes:
    - 'array of control widget which behaves like a master in the 
    master-detail view structures: TabBar'
  exclusiveTypes:
    - 'array of disabled and esclusive UI types: NavigationBar'
  navigationBackKeyword:
    - 'array of words on which items should be regarded 
    as a back button: back'

Different applications provides various design of UI layers. Hence it becomes extremely difficult to provide a generic crawling algorithm which can suites into all scenarios, especially when it is also required to support multiplatform crawlings. Hence a series of hooks are provided to provide further customizablility.

Since current project is still under development, you can run the following command to see current crawling implementation.

a. Open the terminal and initialize macaca server macaca server --verbose

b. Execute npm command in the project dir npm run dev

When the npm program starts to execute and browser opens macaca-reporter. In case the reporter fails to refresh, after crawling process intializes, manualy refresh the reported page.

The MIT License (MIT)