TestCafe Static Analyser (beta)

A tool that analyses the source code of your TestCafe tests and generates a nice and searchable html report from it.

This tool allows you to show fixtures and tests in a Gherkin-like format, even if you do not use gherkin at all.

To install TestCafe Static Analyser

• run the command npm install --save-dev testcafe-static-analyser.

To start TestCafe Static Analyser

• insert the following script in the package.json file:

"testcafe-static-analyser": "testcafe-static-analyser"

• run the command npm run testcafe-static-analyser
  • this will create the testcafe-static-analyser.json file
  • in this file, modify the sourceFiles section
  • re-run the command

To configure TestCafe Static Analyser

• open the testcafe-static-analyser.json file
• to get rid of a tag in the report, add this tag to the noisyTags section

How it works

• Every fixture is automatically tagged by analysing its folder hierarchy, its filename, its description and the .meta declarations;
• Every test is automatically tagged by analysing its description and the .meta declarations
• Every step that may be present in a test is also automatically tagged by analysing its description;
• every tag generated at the step and the test levels is bubbled up to the fixture tags;
• The html report enables you to search/filter fixtures by tag.

How it looks

• Fixtures are reported as Features and tests as Scenarios

Samples

TestCafe repo

• running testcafe-static-analyser on the TestCafe repo itself will produce the following report (the report has been filtered with the word editable):

• clicking on the GH-711 will produce the details of the selected fixture:

generating a gherkin like report

• the following code:

test("Scenario: scenario example", async () => {
  // Only on devci
  code omitted for brevity
 
  // Given I signed in the App
  code omitted for brevity
 
  // When I enter my name
  code omitted for brevity
 
  // And I enter my email
  code omitted for brevity
 
  // Then I can send my feedback to TestCafe team
  code omitted for brevity
});
 

will produce the following report:

The vision

• Be able to have an high overview of all existing e2e TestCafe tests;
• Be able to dynamically tag at any level
• Be able to find all tests associated to a specific tag;
• Be able to merge the result of tests executions (need to write a custom testcafe reporter for this purpose);
• Be extensible to enable any third-party to add custom parsers and tags (without cloning the project);
• Be extensible to make the html report customizable (without cloning the project).