How can I run casperjs javascript tests from Jenkins?

Question

I've written some casperjs tests to test my Django application. If the Django application is started (on port 8000 for example), casperjs can be run as a separate process and access my running Django app.

My other tests are written with Django's (web)testing framework that sets up the test database with fixtures, and are run with ./manage.py test. With Django webtest, you don't need to start a separate Django webserver (doing requests and url routing is proxied/simulated).

Is there a way to rung casperjs tests from within Django webtest? Without starting a different webserver and having yet another test database?

I've seen ghost.py exists, but haven't tried it yet.

Answer 1

I've managed to find a solution. After upgrading to Django 1.4 I can use LiveServerTestCase and fork casperjs in a subprocess:

from django.test.testcases import LiveServerTestCase
import os, subprocess
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT

class CasperTest(LiveServerTestCase):
    fixtures = ['test_initial_data', ]

    def test_my_testcase(self):
        p = Popen(['casperjs %s/caspertest.js' % os.path.dirname(__file__)], shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True)
        output = p.stdout.read()
        print output

Answer 2

You should take a look at django-casper. I started to use it a few days ago and it is just awesome!