NAME

       Weasel - Perl's php/Mink-inspired abstracted web-driver framework

VERSION

       0.11

SYNOPSIS

         use Weasel;
         use Weasel::Session;
         use Weasel::Driver::Selenium2;

         my $weasel = Weasel->new(
              default_session => 'default',
              sessions => {
                 default => Weasel::Session->new(
                   driver => Weasel::Driver::Selenium2->new(%opts),
                 ),
              });

         $weasel->session->get('http://localhost/index');

DESCRIPTION

       This module abstracts away the differences between the various web-driver protocols, like the Mink
       project does for PHP.

       While heavily inspired by Mink, "Weasel" aims to improve over it by being extensible, providing not just
       access to the underlying browser, yet to provide building blocks for further development and abstraction.

       Pherkin::Extension::Weasel provides integration with Test::BDD::Cucumber (aka pherkin), for BDD testing.

       For the actual page interaction, this module needs a driver to be installed.  Currently, that means
       Weasel::Driver::Selenium2.  Other driver implementations, such as Sahi <http://sahipro.com/> can be
       independently developed and uploaded to CPAN, or contributed.  (We welcome and encourage both!)

   DIFFERENCES WITH OTHER FRAMEWORKS
       Mnemonics for element lookup patterns
           The central registry of xpath expressions to find common page elements helps to keep page access code
           clean. E.g. compare:

              use Weasel::FindExpanders::HTML;
              $session->page->find('*contains', text => 'Some text');

           With

              $session->page->find(".//*[contains(.,'Some text')]
                                         [not(.//*[contains(.,'Some text')])]");

           Multiple  patterns  can  be  registered for a single mnemonic, which will be concatenated to a single
           xpath expression to find the matching tags in a single driver query.

           Besides good performance, this has the benefit that the following

              $session->page->find('*button', text => 'Click!');

           can be easily extended to match Dojo toolkit's <http://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/> buttons, which
           on the HTML level don't contain visible button or input tags, simply by using the widget support set:

              use Weasel::Widgets::Dojo;

       Widgets encapsulate specific behaviours
           All elements in "Weasel" are of the base  type  "Weasel::Element",  which  encapsulates  the  regular
           element interactions (click, find children, etc).

           While  most  elements  will  be  represented  by  "Weasel::Element", it's possible to implement other
           wrappers.  These offer a logical extension point to implement tag-specific utility  functions.   E.g.
           "Weasel::Widgets::HTML::Select", which adds the utility function "select_option".

           These  widgets  also  offer  a  good  way  to override default behaviours.  One such case is the Dojo
           implementation of a 'select' element.  This element replaces the select tag entirely and in  contrast
           with  the  original,  doesn't  keep  the options as child elements of the 'select'-replacing tag.  By
           using the Dojo widget library

              use Weasel::Widget::Dojo;

           the lack of the parent/child relation between the the select and its options is transparently handled
           by overriding the widget's "find" and "find_all" methods.

       KEYS
           Returns a reference to a hash with names of the keys in the hash keys  and  single-character  strings
           containing the key codes as the values.

ATTRIBUTES

       default_session
           The name of the default session to return from "session", in case no name argument is provided.

       sessions
           Holds the sessions registered with the "Weasel" instance.

METHODS

       session([$name [, $value]])
           Returns the session identified by $name.

           If $value is specified, it's associated with the given $name.

CONTRIBUTORS

       Erik Huelsmann

MAINTAINERS

       Erik Huelsmann

BUGS

       Bugs can be filed in the GitHub issue tracker for the Weasel project:
        https://github.com/perl-weasel/weasel/issues

SOURCE

       The source code repository for Weasel is at
        https://github.com/perl-weasel/weasel

SUPPORT

       Community     support     is     available     through     perl-weasel@googlegroups.com     <mailto:perl-
       weasel@googlegroups.com>.

COPYRIGHT

        (C) 2016  Erik Huelsmann

       Licensed under the same terms as Perl.

perl v5.26.1                                       2017-10-05                                        Weasel(3pm)