215 Browser automation with Capybara and Selenium WebDriver [2d]

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We use Selenium WebDriver Show archive.org snapshot integrated with Cucumber/Capybara for full-stack integration testing.

Try and use it

Your forked MovieDB should already include a feature that uses a real browser. Add the @javascript tag to your other features to test it yourself.

When you run your cucumber feature now with NO_HEADLESS=1 geordi cucumber, you should see a browser opening. Get someone to help you if this does not work.

Some of your features might now fail. You might find solutions below:

Making peace with Selenium

Selenium is a powerful tool that you can use to test almost all user interfaces. However it has a lot of quirks you have to deal with. Luckily for you, someone else has already solved all major issues that the Capybara/Selenium combo brings with it.

Understand the following issues and solutions in depth:

Spreewald

Work through the code of all Spreewald steps Show archive.org snapshot .

Do you understand the implementation of each step?

Henning Koch
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Henning Koch
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra Curriculum (2015-09-04 13:59)