HitchStory Examples

The following are four rudimentary to do apps each tested with HitchStory, a StrictYAML based FOSS python integration testing framework.

Unlike with other testing frameworks these declarative stories are type-safe, they can rewrite themselves from program output and they can autogenerate beautiful documentation with a minimal amount of work.

To do App	Storytests	Cool Features	Story Engine
Website	add todo, correct spelling	Autogenerated add todo docs and correct my spelling docs including playwright generated GIFs and screenshots.	engine.py
REST API	add todo, correct spelling	Autogenerated docs, API responses in story self-rewrite	engine.py
Interactive command line app	add todo, correct spelling	Autogenerated docs, Command line outputs in story self-rewrite	engine.py
Python API	add todo, correct spelling	Autogenerated docs, print() outputs from python in stories self-rewrites	engine.py

All of the above tests are also running on Github Actions with no tweaks:

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Run them yourself

Podman must be installed on your system first.

All other functionality is automated and can be run via one of the four key.sh scripts.

To begin:

$ git clone https://github.com/hitchdev/examples.git
$ cd examples/commandlib -OR- restapi -OR- website -OR- pythonapi
$ ./key.sh make

Run all tests

$ ./key.sh regression

Run a single test

This command can be used to craft a new feature and do acceptance test driven development on it:

$ ./key.sh atdd correct

"correct" is a unique keyword used in the name of one of the stories.

Run singular test in rewrite mode

If you change the REST API JSON response, the command line output, etc. and run "./key.sh build" and then run this it will rewrite that story:

$ ./key.sh ratdd correct

Generate documentation from stories

This will regenerate all of the markdown docs for that project:

$ ./key.sh docgen

For the website project, the screenshots and video artefacts used by the markdown can be regenerated by running:

$ ./key.sh recordings

Clean up everything

This will delete everything created to run these tests (container/volume):

$ ./key.sh clean all

Note that it must be run in each project folder you ran make in.

About the projects

The four folders contain four versions of the same project - this great little to do app built by Oleg Vinokurov which was built with a command line, REST and web interface.

The ./key.sh scripts runs the app in a container inside the hitch container.

This is done to segregate the test code from the application code.

The website test runner also runs a separate playwright container inside the hitch container.

The hitch container is run with a "gen" volume. This is a podman volume that contains all builds necessary to run the app.

Future work on this repo

• Mount code folder with podman so "./key build" is unnecessary after code changes.
• Mock the passage of time - to do app with reminder.
• Demonstrate how an app with a postgres database could be easily tested.
• Demonstrate story inheritance (e.g. logging in story -> add todo).