After lots of research and trial and error I have chosen the following stack for Frontend BDD testing:

• Cucumber.js
• CasperJS (through SpookyJS)
• PhantomJS

I would like to avoid CasperJS run queues and use PhantomJS directly (through phantom-proxy) with callbacks in each step:

@World = (cb) ->
    @phantom = require "phantom-proxy"
    cb()

@Before (cb) ->
    self = this
    @phantom.create {}, (proxy) ->
        self.proxy = proxy
        self.page = proxy.page
        cb()

@After (cb) ->
    @proxy.end ->
        cb()

@When /^I go to url "([^"]*)"$/, (url, cb) ->
    @page.open url, ->
        cb()

making the whole more logical and BDD-like.

Additionally, SpookyJS doesn't provide a full API for CasperJS.

The PhantomJS API, however, is quite low-level. Is there any other tool that provides CasperJS-like functionality (clicking, waiting for elements, etc) for Node.js without using run queues?

After lots of research and trial and error I have chosen the following stack for Frontend BDD testing:

• Cucumber.js
• CasperJS (through SpookyJS)
• PhantomJS

I would like to avoid CasperJS run queues and use PhantomJS directly (through phantom-proxy) with callbacks in each step:

@World = (cb) ->
    @phantom = require "phantom-proxy"
    cb()

@Before (cb) ->
    self = this
    @phantom.create {}, (proxy) ->
        self.proxy = proxy
        self.page = proxy.page
        cb()

@After (cb) ->
    @proxy.end ->
        cb()

@When /^I go to url "([^"]*)"$/, (url, cb) ->
    @page.open url, ->
        cb()

making the whole more logical and BDD-like.

Additionally, SpookyJS doesn't provide a full API for CasperJS.

The PhantomJS API, however, is quite low-level. Is there any other tool that provides CasperJS-like functionality (clicking, waiting for elements, etc) for Node.js without using run queues?

• javascript
• cucumber
• bdd
• phantomjs

• Ewww... running PhantomJs from within Node is ugly. I speak from many failings with that. Solution: PhantomJs + Casper can be ran as a standalone, and is much easier to configure and customize as such. I can't advise you to run the standalone on the Linux version, however-another failure on my part. BUT the phantom.exe ran from the windows mand line is a godsend. It just works. A server can be built in less than 20 lines, as well. CasperJS + your own tests are a breeze to build and customize, too, straight from the examples provided at CasperJs example page. Highly remended. – FredTheWebGuy Commented Jun 12, 2013 at 22:42
• 2 As far as i researched, it worked well for single-page apps, but not for websites, where one needs to navigate from page to page. Finally we went with testing inside django with lettuce and ghostdriver. works like charm actually and is very fast. – Ernests Karlsons Commented Jun 13, 2013 at 7:47
• You should use github./AllegiantAir/cucumber-defaults – Dr.Knowitall Commented Aug 11, 2014 at 22:11

2 Answers 2

Mocha-PhantomJS might be just what you're looking for.

Alternatively, WebdriverJS has support for cucumber tests.

If you want to be more low-level you can try interfacing with the selenium-webdriver directly. Here's a demo on github.

Good luck!

I'd remend Mocha which has a cucumber syntax add-on (mocha-cackes) and/or chai and it's plugins chai-jquery and chai-timers.

Also Karma es with cucumber syntax support through the plugin karma-cucumber.

Both Karma and Mocha allow you to run your tests against real devices using launchers for saucelabs or browserstack for example.

Hope it helps.