Load a web page into a headless Jasmine spec running PhantomJS

Question

How do I read in a page from localhost into a headless Jasmine spec so test cases can work on the DOM elements?

My Gulp task is successfully running Jasmine specs for unit testing, and now I need to build integration tests to verify full web pages served from localhost. I'm using the gulp-jasmine-browser plugin to run PhantomJS.

Example:

gulpfile.js

var gulp =           require('gulp');
var jasmineBrowser = require('gulp-jasmine-browser');

function specRunner() {
   gulp.src(['node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js', 'src/js/*.js', 'spec/*.js'])
      .pipe(jasmineBrowser.specRunner({ console: true }))
      .pipe(jasmineBrowser.headless());
   }

gulp.task('spec', specRunner);

spec/cart-spec.js

describe('Cart component', function() {

   it('displays on the gateway page', function() {
      var page = loadWebPage('http://localhost/');  //DOES NOT WORK
      var cart = page.find('#cart');
      expect(cart.length).toBe(1);
      });

   });

There is no loadWebPage() function. It's just to illustrate the functionality I believe is needed.

Answer 1

End-to-End testing frameworks like a Selenium, WebdriverIO, Nightwatch.js, Protractor and so on are more suitable in such case.

The gulp-jasmine-browser plugin still is about the Unit testing in the browser environment. It is not possible to navigate between pages.