When writing automated test sutes, there are some things that should "just work". Problems like managing test data, logging, and results are things that shouldn't have to be re-invented for every test project you work on. OpenCafe aims to address that problem by providing solutions for the commonly occuring challenges in the development and operation of functional and end-to-end test suites.

• Common sense conventions for test data and log management
• Per test run and per test logs and results
• Reference drivers for performing non-UI testing including HTTP, SSH, and WinRM
• Design patterns for building test clients for RESTful API applications
• Plugin system to allow for further customization

From PyPI (recommended):

$ pip install opencafe

From source:

$ git clone https://github.com/CafeHub/opencafe.git
$ cd opencafe
$ pip install .

Post-install, the cafe-config cli tool will become available. It is used for installing plugins and initializing OpenCafe's default directory structure.

Running the cafe-config init command will create the default OpenCafe directory structure in a directory named .opencafe. This directory will be located in either the current user's home directory or in the root of the virtual environment you currently have active. This directory contains the /configs directory which stores configuration data, the /logs directory which holds the logging output from all tests executed, and the engine.config file, which sets the base test repository and allows the user to override the default directories for logging and configuration.

OpenCafe uses a plugin system to allow for core functionality to be extended or for additional capabilities to be added. Plugins are essentially Python packages, which may have their own Python dependencies. This design allows implementors to only install dependencies for the functionality that they intend to use, as the additional dependencies are installed at the same time as the plugin.

The cafe-config plugins command is used to list and install plugins.

Example:

$ cafe-config plugins list
=================================
* Available Plugins
  ... elasticsearch
  ... http
  ... mongo
  ... pathos_multiprocess
  ... rsyslog
  ... skip_on_issue
  ... soap
  ... ssh
  ... sshv2
  ... subunit
  ... winrm
=================================

$ cafe-config plugins install http
=================================
* Installing Plugins
  ... http
=================================

More in-depth documentation about the OpenCafe framework is located at http://opencafe.readthedocs.org.

Contributions are always welcome. The CONTIBUTING.md file contains further guidance on submitting changes to this project and the review process that we follow.