The basic notion behind IronWatin is to use the flexibilty provided by IronPython and the testing power that WatiN provides for integration testing on Windows (not yet tested on Mac OS X or Linux via Mono).
Currently IronWatin is quite basic in its implementation, providing a
basic BrowserTest class which subclasses from the unittest.TestCase
class provided by the standard unittest
Python module.
IronWatin is intended on being used from a single-runner perspective, i.e.:
#!/usr/bin/env ipy
# The import of IronWatin will add a reference to WatiN.Core.dll
# and update `sys.path` to include C:\Python25\Lib and C:\Python26\Lib
# so you can import from the Python standard library
import IronWatin
import WatiN.Core as Watin
class MyTest(IronWatin.BrowserTest):
url = 'http://www.github.com'
def runTest(self):
# Run some Watin commands
if __name__ == '__main__':
IronWatin.main()
You can also add your own custom command-line parameters which will be added to every instance of your test cases, i.e.:
#!/usr/bin/env ipy
# The import of IronWatin will add a reference to WatiN.Core.dll
# and update `sys.path` to include C:\Python25\Lib and C:\Python26\Lib
# so you can import from the Python standard library
import IronWatin
import WatiN.Core as Watin
import optparse
class OptionTest(IronWatin.BrowserTest):
url = 'http://www.github.com'
def runTest(self):
# Run some Watin commands
assert self.testval
if __name__ == '__main__':
opts = optparse.OptionParser()
opts.add_option('--testval', dest='testval', help='Specify a value')
IronWatin.main(options=opts)