Alternative to CasperJS for use with Cucumber.js

Question

After lots of research and trial and error I have chosen the following stack for Frontend BDD testing:

• Cucumber.js
• CasperJS (through SpookyJS)
• PhantomJS

I would like to avoid CasperJS run queues and use PhantomJS directly (through phantom-proxy) with callbacks in each step:

@World = (cb) ->
    @phantom = require "phantom-proxy"
    cb()

@Before (cb) ->
    self = this
    @phantom.create {}, (proxy) ->
        self.proxy = proxy
        self.page = proxy.page
        cb()

@After (cb) ->
    @proxy.end ->
        cb()

@When /^I go to url "([^"]*)"$/, (url, cb) ->
    @page.open url, ->
        cb()

making the whole more logical and BDD-like.

Additionally, SpookyJS doesn't provide a full API for CasperJS.

The PhantomJS API, however, is quite low-level. Is there any other tool that provides CasperJS-like functionality (clicking, waiting for elements, etc) for Node.js without using run queues?

Answer 1

Mocha-PhantomJS might be just what you're looking for.

Alternatively, WebdriverJS has support for cucumber tests.

If you want to be more low-level you can try interfacing with the selenium-webdriver directly. Here's a demo on github.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I'd recommend Mocha which has a cucumber syntax add-on (mocha-cackes) and/or chai and it's plugins chai-jquery and chai-timers.

Also Karma comes with cucumber syntax support through the plugin karma-cucumber.

Both Karma and Mocha allow you to run your tests against real devices using launchers for saucelabs or browserstack for example.

Hope it helps.