tests/selenium/wdio-mediawiki/README.md

   1 # wdio-mediawiki
   2
   3 A plugin for [WebdriverIO](http://webdriver.io/) providing utilities to simplify testing of MediaWiki features.
   4
   5 ## Getting Started
   6
   7 ### Page
   8
   9 The `Page` class is a base class for following the [Page Objects Pattern](http://webdriver.io/guide/testrunner/pageobjects.html).
  10
  11 * `openTitle( title [, Object query [, string fragment ] ] )`
  12
  13 The convention is for implementations to extend this class and provide an `open()` method
  14 that calls `super.openTitle()`, as well as add various getters for elements on the page.
  15
  16 See [BlankPage](./BlankPage.js) and [specs/BlankPage](./specs/BlankPage.js) for an example.
  17
  18 ### Api
  19
  20 Utilities to interact with the MediaWiki API. Uses the [mwbot](https://github.com/Fannon/mwbot) library.
  21
  22 Actions are performed logged-in using `browser.options.username` and `browser.options.password`,
  23 which typically come from `MEDIAWIKI_USER` and `MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD` environment variables.
  24
  25 * `edit(title, content)`
  26 * `delete(title, reason)`
  27 * `createAccount(username, password)`
  28 * `blockUser(username, expiry)`
  29 * `unblockUser(username)`
  30
  31 ### RunJobs
  32
  33 Use the static `RunJobs.run()` method to ensure that any queued jobs are executed before
  34 making assertions that depend on its outcome.
  35
  36 ## Versioning
  37
  38 This package follows [Semantic Versioning guidelines](https://semver.org/) for its releases. In
  39 particular, its major version must be bumped when compatibility is removed for a previous of
  40 MediaWiki.
  41
  42 It is the expectation that this module will only support a single version of MediaWiki at any
  43 given time, and that tests in older branches of MediaWiki-related projects naturally use the older
  44 release line of this package.
  45
  46 In order to allow for smooth and decentralised upgrades, it is recommended that the only type of
  47 breaking change made to this package is a change that removes something. Thus, in order to change
  48 something, it must either be backwards-compatible, or must be introduced as a new method that
  49 co-exists with its deprecated equivalent for at least one release.
  50
  51 ## Issue tracker
  52
  53 Please report issues to [Phabricator](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-core-tests/).
  54
  55 ## Contributing
  56
  57 This module is maintained in the MediaWiki core repository and published from there as a
  58 package to npmjs.org. To simplify development and to ensure changes are verified
  59 automatically, MediaWiki core itself uses this module directly from the working copy
  60 using [npm Local Paths](https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#local-paths).