TestBox ships with several test runners internally but we have tried to simplify and abstract it with our TestBox object which can be found in the testbox.system package
. The testbox
object allows you to execute tests from a CFC, CFM, HTTP, SOAP, NodeJS or REST. You can also make your CFC's extend from our BaseSpec
class so you can execute it directly via the URL. The main execution methods are:
// Run tests and produce reporter results
testbox.run()
// Run tests and get raw testbox.system.TestResults object
testbox.runRaw()
// Run tests and produce reporter results from SOAP, REST, HTTP
testbox.runRemote()
// Run via Spec URL
http://localhost/tests/spec.cfc?method=runRemote
We encourage you to read the API docs included in the distribution for the complete parameters for each method.
Here are the arguments you can use for initializing TestBox or executing the run()
method
Argument | Required | Default | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
bundles | true | --- | string/array | The path, list of paths or array of paths of the spec bundle CFCs to run and test |
directory | false | --- | struct | The directory mapping path or a struct: [ mapping = the path to the directory using dot notation (myapp.testing.specs), recurse = boolean, filter = closure that receives the path of the CFC found, it must return true to process or false to continue process ] |
reporter | false | simple | string/struct/instance | The type of reporter to use for the results, by default is uses our 'simple' report. You can pass in a core reporter string type or an instance of a coldbox.system.reports.IReporter. You can also pass a struct with [type="string or classpath", options={}] if a reporter expects options. |
labels | false | false | string/array | The string or array of labels the runner will use to execute suites and specs with. |
options | false | {} | struct | A structure of property name-value pairs that each runner can implement and use at its discretion. |
testBundles | false | --- | string/array | A list or array of bundle names that are the ones that will be executed ONLY! |
testSuites | false | --- | string/array | A list or array of suite names that are the ones that will be executed ONLY! |
testSpecs | false | --- | string/array | A list or array of test names that are the ones that will be executed ONLY |
callbacks | false | {} |
struct of closures or CFC | A struct of listener callbacks or a CFC with callbacks for listening to progress of the testing: onBundleStart,onBundleEnd,onSuiteStart,onSuiteEnd,onSpecStart,onSpecEnd |
eagerFailure | false | false | boolean | If true, then after testing a bundle if there are any failures or errors no more testing will be performed. |
Here are the arguments you can use for executing the runRemote()
method of the TestBox object:
Argument | Required | Default | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
bundles | true | --- | string | The path, list of paths or array of paths of the spec bundle CFCs to run and test |
directory | false | --- | string | The directory mapping to test: directory = the path to the directory using dot notation (myapp.testing.specs) |
recurse | false | true | boolean | Recurse the directory mapping or not, by default it does |
reporter | false | simple | string/path | The type of reporter to use for the results, by default is uses our 'simple' report. You can pass in a core reporter string type or a class path to the reporter to use. |
reporterOptions | false | {} | JSON | A JSON struct literal of options to pass into the reporter |
labels | false | false | string | The string array of labels the runner will use to execute suites and specs with. |
options | false | {} | JSON | A JSON struct literal of configuration options that are optionally used to configure a runner. |
testBundles | false | --- | string/array | A list or array of bundle names that are the ones that will be executed ONLY! |
testSuites | false | --- | string | A list of suite names that are the ones that will be executed ONLY! |
testSpecs | false | --- | string | A list of test names that are the ones that will be executed ONLY |
eagerFailure | false | false | boolean | If true, then after testing a bundle if there are any failures or errors no more testing will be performed. |
- The
bundles
argument which can be a single CFC path or an array of CFC paths or a directory argument so it can go and discover the test bundles from that directory. - The
reporter
argument can be a core reporter name like: json,xml,junit,raw,simple,dots,tap,min,etc or it can be an instance of a reporter CFC. - You can execute the runners from any cfm template or any CFC or any URL, that is up to you.