Riurik is a tool designed to make writing automated acceptance and regression tests for web applications easier. It provides features that make it easier to organize and structure your acceptance tests, associating them with the user stories or features that they test.

• Short learning curve
• Selenium free
• The JQuery library is used to abstract over browser differences
• Using CoffeeScript to write specs makes them more readable
• QUnit, jasmine, mocha, cucumberjs can be used to write specs
• Allows to run any script language to execute server-side code
• CI integration: xml, json, html result reporting, execution progress
• Tests execution history
• It provides Web based UI with handy code editor(http://ace.ajax.org)
• You can use PowerShell, python, batch(cmd) scripts to create test fixtures
  • this list can be easily extended
  • these fixtures are for setup and examine your test environment before and after tests
  • you can create, edit and execute this scripts right in browser
• Browser is a single place to manage, review, execute and check results of your tests
• It does not require to use particular DSL and framework to write specs
  • javascript, that is one of the language of web developers, is used to write specs
  • you can use any javascript libraries or framework to write and execute you specs
  • cucumber, qUnit, jasmine, mocha (this list can be extended easily)
  • using real programming language(javascript) eliminates any code duplication issues
  • using real programming language makes the developers life easier
  • it is possible to use coffescript to make the specs more readable and write less code
  • it is possible to use cucumber to make the specs event more readable(especially for business users)

Demo

• Python 2
• [Django] 3
• jQuery
• nodejs

• Download ZIP and unpack
• Download python http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.msi and setup
• Download last python setup tools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools and install
• Download Django zipped archive https://www.djangoproject.com/download
• Unpack it and run the C:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install inside this unpacked folder
• Download nodejs http://nodejs.org/download and install it
• run.bat

Riurik is written by

• Andrew Malkov
• Anton Timiskov

Credit of course goes to:

jQuery: jQuery Copyright ©2010 by The jQuery Project

QUnit: Copyright (c) 2008 John Resig, Jörn Zaefferer, used under the terms of the MIT LICENSE

• 0.1 - Initial Release

Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Andrew Malkov, http://amalkov.blogspot.com

The MIT License

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