Test::WWW::Mechanize - Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass Version 1.12 Test::WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of WWW::Mechanize that incorporates features for web application testing. For example: $mech->get_ok( $page ); $mech->base_is( 'http://petdance.com/', 'Proper <BASE HREF>' ); $mech->title_is( "Invoice Status", "Make sure we're on the invoice page" ); $mech->content_contains( "Andy Lester", "My name somewhere" ); $mech->content_like( qr/(cpan|perl)\.org/, "Link to perl.org or CPAN" ); This is equivalent to: $mech->get( $page ); ok( $mech->success ); is( $mech->base, 'http://petdance.com', 'Proper <BASE HREF>' ); is( $mech->title, "Invoice Status", "Make sure we're on the invoice page" ); ok( index( $mech->content, "Andy Lester" ) >= 0, "My name somewhere" ); like( $mech->content, qr/(cpan|perl)\.org/, "Link to perl.org or CPAN" ); but has nicer diagnostics if they fail.

new
Behaves like, and calls, WWW::Mechanize's "new" method. Any parms passed in get passed to WWW::Mechanize's constructor.

$mech->get_ok($url, [ \%LWP_options ,] $desc)
A wrapper around WWW::Mechanize's get(), with similar options, except the second argument needs to be a hash reference, not a hash. Like well-behaved "*_ok()" functions, it returns true if the test passed, or false if not.

$mech->title_is( $str [, $desc ] )
Tells if the title of the page is the given string. $mech->title_is( "Invoice Summary" );

$mech->title_like( $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the title of the page matches the given regex. $mech->title_like( qr/Invoices for (.+)/

$mech->title_unlike( $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the title of the page matches the given regex. $mech->title_unlike( qr/Invoices for (.+)/

$mech->base_is( $str [, $desc ] )
Tells if the base of the page is the given string. $mech->base_is( "http://example.com/" );

$mech->base_like( $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the base of the page matches the given regex. $mech->base_like( qr{http://example.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=(.+)});

$mech->base_unlike( $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the base of the page matches the given regex. $mech->base_unlike( qr{http://example.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=(.+)});

$mech->content_is( $str [, $desc ] )
Tells if the content of the page matches the given string

$mech->content_contains( $str [, $desc ] )
Tells if the content of the page contains $str.

$mech->content_lacks( $str [, $desc ] )
Tells if the content of the page lacks $str.

$mech->content_like( $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the content of the page matches $regex.

$mech->content_unlike( $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the content of the page does NOT match $regex.

$mech->has_tag( $tag, $text [, $desc ] )
Tells if the page has a $tag tag with the given content in its text.

$mech->has_tag_like( $tag, $regex [, $desc ] )
Tells if the page has a $tag tag with the given content in its text.

$mech->followable_links()
Returns a list of links that Mech can follow. This is only http and https links.

$mech->page_links_ok( [ $desc ] )
Follow all links on the current page and test for HTTP status 200 $mech->page_links_ok('Check all links');

$mech->page_links_content_like( $regex,[ $desc ] )
Follow all links on the current page and test their contents for $regex. $mech->page_links_content_like( qr/foo/, 'Check all links contain "foo"' );

$mech->page_links_content_unlike( $regex,[ $desc ] )
Follow all links on the current page and test their contents do not contain the specified regex. $mech->page_links_content_unlike(qr/Restricted/, 'Check all links do not contain Restricted');

$mech->links_ok( $links [, $desc ] )
Check the current page for specified links and test for HTTP status 200. The links may be specified as a reference to an array containing WWW::Mechanize::Link objects, an array of URLs, or a scalar URL name. my @links = $mech->find_all_links( url_regex => qr/cnn\.com$/ ); $mech->links_ok( \@links, 'Check all links for cnn.com' ); my @links = qw( index.html search.html about.html ); $mech->links_ok( \@links, 'Check main links' ); $mech->links_ok( 'index.html', 'Check link to index' );

$mech->link_status_is( $links, $status [, $desc ] )
Check the current page for specified links and test for HTTP status passed. The links may be specified as a reference to an array containing WWW::Mechanize::Link objects, an array of URLs, or a scalar URL name. my @links = $mech->followable_links(); $mech->link_status_is( \@links, 403, 'Check all links are restricted' );

$mech->link_status_isnt( $links, $status [, $desc ] )
Check the current page for specified links and test for HTTP status passed. The links may be specified as a reference to an array containing WWW::Mechanize::Link objects, an array of URLs, or a scalar URL name. my @links = $mech->followable_links(); $mech->link_status_isnt( \@links, 404, 'Check all links are not 404' );

$mech->link_content_like( $links, $regex [, $desc ] )
Check the current page for specified links and test the content of each against $regex. The links may be specified as a reference to an array containing WWW::Mechanize::Link objects, an array of URLs, or a scalar URL name. my @links = $mech->followable_links(); $mech->link_content_like( \@links, qr/Restricted/, 'Check all links are restricted' );

$mech->link_content_unlike( $links, $regex [, $desc ] )
Check the current page for specified links and test the content of each does not match $regex. The links may be specified as a reference to an array containing WWW::Mechanize::Link objects, an array of URLs, or a scalar URL name. my @links = $mech->followable_links(); $mech->link_content_unlike( \@links, qr/Restricted/, 'No restricted links' );

follow_link_ok( \%parms [, $comment] )
Makes a "follow_link()" call and executes tests on the results. The link must be found, and then followed successfully. Otherwise, this test fails. %parms is a hashref containing the parms to pass to "follow_link()". Note that the parms to "follow_link()" are a hash whereas the parms to this function are a hashref. You have to call this function like: $agent->follow_link_ok( {n=>3}, "looking for 3rd link" ); As with other test functions, $comment is optional. If it is supplied then it will display when running the test harness in verbose mode. Returns true value if the specified link was found and followed successfully. The HTTP::Response object returned by follow_link() is not available.

$agent->stuff_inputs( [\%options] )
Finds all free-text input fields (text, textarea, and password) in the current form and fills them to their maximum length in hopes of finding application code that can't handle it. Fields with no maximum length and all textarea fields are set to 66000 bytes, which will often be enough to overflow the data's eventual recepticle. There is no return value. If there is no current form then nothing is done. The hashref $options can contain the following keys: hash value is arrayref of field names to not touch, e.g.: $mech->stuff_inputs( { ignore => [qw( specialfield1 specialfield2 )], } ); hash value is default string to use when stuffing fields. Copies of the string are repeated up to the max length of each field. E.g.: $mech->stuff_inputs( { fill => '@' # stuff all fields with something easy to recognize } ); hash value is arrayref of hashrefs with which you can pass detailed instructions about how to stuff a given field. E.g.: $mech->stuff_inputs( { specs=>{ # Some fields are datatype-constrained. It's most common to # want the field stuffed with valid data. widget_quantity => { fill=>'9' }, notes => { maxlength=>2000 }, } } ); The specs allowed are fill (use this fill for the field rather than the default) and maxlength (use this as the field's maxlength instead of any maxlength specified in the HTML). Add HTML::Lint and HTML::Tidy capabilities. Andy Lester, "<andy at petdance.com>" Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-www-mechanize at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-WWW-Mechanize>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Test::WWW::Mechanize You can also look for information at: <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-WWW-Mechanize> <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-WWW-Mechanize> <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-WWW-Mechanize> <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-WWW-Mechanize> Thanks to Mike O'Regan, Shawn Sorichetti, Chris Dolan, Matt Trout, MATSUNO Tokuhiro, and Pete Krawczyk for patches. Copyright 2004-2005 Andy Lester, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.