Usage¶

You can use use this package outside of Django however it has limited use.

Essentially there are two components, as follows;

Ghostly - A lightweight wrapper and helper methods for Selenium Webdriver. Presently it provides a handful of methods that utilise xpath to deal with a page, such as xpath, xpath_wait et al.
GhostlyDjangoTestCase - A lightweight test case that extends StaticLiveServerTestCase and sets up an instance of Ghostly. It provides methods such as assertCurrentUrl, assertXpathEqual et al.

GhostlyDjangoTestCase¶

GhostlyDjangoTestCase inherits StaticLiveServerTestCase and thus fires up a WSGI server that handles requests.

Given you have a named URL home with a <h1>Hello World</h1> visible in the source, you can do the following;

class MyTestCase(GhostlyDjangoTestCase):

    def test_homepage(self):
        self.goto(reverse('home'))

        # Assert that an element is equal to something
        self.assertXpathEqual('//h1', 'Hello World')

        # Assert the current url, relative or absolute
        self.assertCurrentUrl('/home')

Working with SVG¶

To traverse SVG with Selenium web driver you must use xpath.

class MyTestCase(GhostlyDjangoTestCase):

    def test_homepage(self):
        self.goto(reverse('home'))

        # Click on an element, or example, in an SVG.
        self.ghostly.xpath_click('//*[@id="refresh"]')

        # Assert that an Xpath is equal to something
        self.assertXpathEqual('//h2', 'Hello World')

        # Wait for xpath to exist
        self.ghostly.xpath_wait('//div[@id="something"]')