Friday, February 13, 2015

Calabash Android Command Line Options and Environment Variables

Calabash is a really cool tool but I find the documentation for android is a bit scattered. Some general stuff is readily available online but no links to docs about environment variables or command line options. In the following I have tried to put together a bit more info about command line options and environment variables based on version 0.5.4 of the source code.

Commands

Usage: calabash-android <command-name> [parameters] [options]
help

prints very brief help information.

build

builds the test server that will be used when testing the app.

build <apk>
run
run <apk>

Uses cucumber options, see below.

gen

Generate a features folder structure.

console

open calabash console

console <apk>
setup

Sets up a non-default keystore .calabash_settings to use with this test project.

resign

Re-signs the app with the currently configured keystore.

version

Prints the gem version

General options

    -v, --verbose

Turns on verbose logging

Environment variables

The environment variables used by calabash-android are documented in a mark-down file in the source which can be found here.

Cucumber Options

The run command forwards command line options to cucumber. The options are described by options.rb in cucumber which is invoked by


cucumber --help

For cucumber 1.3.17:
Usage: cucumber [options] [ [FILE|DIR|URL][:LINE[:LINE]*] ]+

Examples:
cucumber examples/i18n/en/features
cucumber @rerun.txt (See --format rerun)
cucumber examples/i18n/it/features/somma.feature:6:98:113
cucumber -s -i http://rubyurl.com/eeCl

    -r, --require LIBRARY|DIR        Require files before executing the features. If this
                                     option is not specified, all *.rb files that are
                                     siblings or below the features will be loaded auto-
                                     matically. Automatic loading is disabled when this
                                     option is specified, and all loading becomes explicit.
                                     Files under directories named "support" are always
                                     loaded first.
                                     This option can be specified multiple times.
        --i18n LANG                  List keywords for in a particular language
                                     Run with "--i18n help" to see all languages
    -f, --format FORMAT              How to format features (Default: pretty). Available formats:
                                       debug       : For developing formatters - prints the calls made to the listeners.
                                       html        : Generates a nice looking HTML report.
                                       json        : Prints the feature as JSON
                                       json_pretty : Prints the feature as prettified JSON
                                       junit       : Generates a report similar to Ant+JUnit.
                                       pretty      : Prints the feature as is - in colours.
                                       progress    : Prints one character per scenario.
                                       rerun       : Prints failing files with line numbers.
                                       stepdefs    : Prints All step definitions with their locations. Same as
                                                     the usage formatter, except that steps are not printed.
                                       usage       : Prints where step definitions are used.
                                                     The slowest step definitions (with duration) are
                                                     listed first. If --dry-run is used the duration
                                                     is not shown, and step definitions are sorted by
                                                     filename instead.
                                     Use --format rerun --out features.txt to write out failing
                                     features. You can rerun them with cucumber @rerun.txt.
                                     FORMAT can also be the fully qualified class name of
                                     your own custom formatter. If the class isn't loaded,
                                     Cucumber will attempt to require a file with a relative
                                     file name that is the underscore name of the class name.
                                     Example: --format Foo::BarZap -> Cucumber will look for
                                     foo/bar_zap.rb. You can place the file with this relative
                                     path underneath your features/support directory or anywhere
                                     on Ruby's LOAD_PATH, for example in a Ruby gem.
    -o, --out [FILE|DIR]             Write output to a file/directory instead of STDOUT. This option
                                     applies to the previously specified --format, or the
                                     default format if no format is specified. Check the specific
                                     formatter's docs to see whether to pass a file or a dir.
    -t, --tags TAG_EXPRESSION        Only execute the features or scenarios with tags matching TAG_EXPRESSION.
                                     Scenarios inherit tags declared on the Feature level. The simplest
                                     TAG_EXPRESSION is simply a tag. Example: --tags @dev. When a tag in a tag
                                     expression starts with a ~, this represents boolean NOT. Example: --tags ~@dev.
                                     A tag expression can have several tags separated by a comma, which represents
                                     logical OR. Example: --tags @dev,@wip. The --tags option can be specified
                                     several times, and this represents logical AND. Example: --tags @foo,~@bar --tags @zap.
                                     This represents the boolean expression (@foo || !@bar) && @zap.
                                     
                                     Beware that if you want to use several negative tags to exclude several tags
                                     you have to use logical AND: --tags ~@fixme --tags ~@buggy.
                                     
                                     Positive tags can be given a threshold to limit the number of occurrences.
                                     Example: --tags @qa:3 will fail if there are more than 3 occurrences of the @qa tag.
                                     This can be practical if you are practicing Kanban or CONWIP.
    -n, --name NAME                  Only execute the feature elements which match part of the given name.
                                     If this option is given more than once, it will match against all the
                                     given names.
    -e, --exclude PATTERN            Don't run feature files or require ruby files matching PATTERN
    -p, --profile PROFILE            Pull commandline arguments from cucumber.yml which can be defined as
                                     strings or arrays.  When a 'default' profile is defined and no profile
                                     is specified it is always used. (Unless disabled, see -P below.)
                                     When feature files are defined in a profile and on the command line
                                     then only the ones from the command line are used.
    -P, --no-profile                 Disables all profile loading to avoid using the 'default' profile.
    -c, --[no-]color                 Whether or not to use ANSI color in the output. Cucumber decides
                                     based on your platform and the output destination if not specified.
    -d, --dry-run                    Invokes formatters without executing the steps.
                                     This also omits the loading of your support/env.rb file if it exists.
    -a, --autoformat DIR             Reformats (pretty prints) feature files and write them to DIRECTORY.
                                     Be careful if you choose to overwrite the originals.
                                     Implies --dry-run --format pretty.
    -m, --no-multiline               Don't print multiline strings and tables under steps.
    -s, --no-source                  Don't print the file and line of the step definition with the steps.
    -i, --no-snippets                Don't print snippets for pending steps.
    -I, --snippet-type TYPE          Use different snippet type (Default: regexp). Available types:
                                     classic: Snippets without parentheses. Note that these cause a warning from modern versions of Ruby. e.g. Given /^missing step$/
                                     percent: Snippets with percent regexp e.g. Given %r{^missing step$}
                                     regexp : Snippets with parentheses    e.g. Given(/^missing step$/)
    -q, --quiet                      Alias for --no-snippets --no-source.
    -b, --backtrace                  Show full backtrace for all errors.
    -S, --strict                     Fail if there are any undefined or pending steps.
    -w, --wip                        Fail if there are any passing scenarios.
    -v, --verbose                    Show the files and features loaded.
    -g, --guess                      Guess best match for Ambiguous steps.
    -l, --lines LINES                Run given line numbers. Equivalent to FILE:LINE syntax
    -x, --expand                     Expand Scenario Outline Tables in output.
        --[no-]drb                   Run features against a DRb server. (i.e. with the spork gem)
        --port PORT                  Specify DRb port.  Ignored without --drb
        --dotcucumber DIR            Write metadata to DIR
        --version                    Show version.
    -h, --help                       You're looking at it.