Introduction ============ This is a full-blown functional test. The emphasis here is on testing what the user may input and see, and the system is largely tested as a black box. We use PloneTestCase to set up this test as well, so we have a full Plone site to play with. We *can* inspect the state of the portal, e.g. using self.portal and self.folder, but it is often frowned upon since you are not treating the system as a black box. Also, if you, for example, log in or set roles using calls like self.setRoles(), these are not reflected in the test browser, which runs as a separate session. Being a doctest, we can tell a story here. First, we must perform some setup. We use the testbrowser that is shipped with Five, as this provides proper Zope 2 integration. Most of the documentation, though, is in the underlying zope.testbrower package. >>> from Products.Five.testbrowser import Browser >>> browser = Browser() >>> portal_url = self.portal.absolute_url() The following is useful when writing and debugging testbrowser tests. It lets us see all error messages in the error_log. >>> self.portal.error_log._ignored_exceptions = () With that in place, we can go to the portal front page and log in. We will do this using the default user from PloneTestCase: >>> from Products.PloneTestCase.setup import portal_owner, default_password >>> browser.open(portal_url) We have the login portlet, so let's use that. >>> browser.getControl(name='__ac_name').value = portal_owner >>> browser.getControl(name='__ac_password').value = default_password >>> browser.getControl(name='submit').click() Here, we set the value of the fields on the login form and then simulate a submit click. We then test that we are still on the portal front page: >>> browser.url == portal_url True And we ensure that we get the friendly logged-in message: >>> "You are now logged in" in browser.contents True -*- extra stuff goes here -*- The my tests ===============================