End-to-end testing of HTTP requests/responses is easy with Go.

Writing and maintaining high level test is even easier with ht.

ht tries to achieve the following:

• Make generating all common HTTP requests easy.
• Provide high- and low-level checks on the received response.
• Make measuring response times easy.

ht is not the jack of all trades in testing web applications:

• Simulating different browsers is not done.
• Simulating interactions in a browser is not done.

Installing ht should be simple if Go 1.5 and git are available and working:

• Run GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 go get github.com/vdobler/ht/cmd/ht which should download, compile and install everything.

• Run $GOPATH/bin/ht help to get you started.

• For a quick check of a HTML page do a

  $GOPATH/bin/ht quick <URL-of-HTML-page>

  and check the generated Report.html file.

If you want to run checks on rendered HTML pages you need a local installation of PhantomJS in version >= 2.0. See http://phantomjs.org .

For a start have a look at the

Tutorial https://github.com/vdobler/ht/blob/master/cmd/ht/Tutorial.md

or the

Showcase here https://github.com/vdobler/ht/tree/master/showcase

The showcase is pretty nonsensical but show almost all features in just a few files. You might want to $ go run showcase.go to have a dummy server listening on localhost:8080 to run the tests against: $ ht exec showcase.suite

For details see the the godoc for reference:

• Tests, Checks and their options: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/ht
• Details to Conditions used in Checks: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/condition
• Image fingerprinting: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/fingerprint
• The ht command itself: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/cmd/ht Run ht help for details
• An example test suite can be found in https://github.com/vdobler/ht/blob/master/testdata/sample.suite