ALEX CLI

A command line interface for running tests and learning experiments with ALEX (v1.7.*).

NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/alex-cli

Requirements

• A running instance of ALEX
• Node.js & NPM

Installation

Via NPM

npm install alex-cli
node node_modules/alex-cli/alex-cli.js -h 

From source

git clone https://github.com/LearnLib/alex-cli.git
cd alex-cli
npm install
node alex-cli.js -h 

Usage

1. Export the symbols from ALEX (see here).
   • When asked, select the option Export symbols only
2. Export the tests from ALEX (see here).

Execute node alex-cli.js -h to see a complete list of parameters and their descriptions. For examples see the section below.

Configuration

Testing

{
  "driverConfig": {
    "width": 1980,
    "height": 1080,
    "implicitlyWait": 0,
    "pageLoadTimeout": 10,
    "scriptTimeout": 10,
    "name": "chrome",
    "headless": true
  }
}

argument	description
width	The width of the browser
height	The height of the browser
implicitlyWait	Selenium implicit timeout value
pageLoadTimeout	Selenium page load timeout value
scriptTimeout	Selenium script timeout value
name	The name of the browser, 'firefox', 'chrome', 'htmlUnit', 'ie', 'safari', 'edge'
headless	If the browser is run headless. Only for Firefox and Chrome

CLI

Testing

node alex-cli.js --uri "http://localhost:8080" \
                 --targets "https://www.google.com,https://www.google.com" \
                 -a "test" \
                 -u "[email protected]:admin" \
                 -s "./symbols.json" \
                 -t "./tests.json" \
                 -c "./config.testing.json"
                 --clean-up

Learning

node alex-cli.js --uri "http://alex.some-server.de" \
                 --target "https://www.google.com,https://www.google.com" \
                 -a "learn" \
                 -u "[email protected]:admin" \
                 -s "./symbols.json" \
                 -c "./config.learning.json"
                 --clean-up