Acceptance testing using Capybara's new RSpec DSL
Back when Steak was first released, Capybara didn’t have any of the nice RSpec helpers it does now. A lot has changed since. Besides the helpers, it got its own RSpec acceptance testing DSL recently, essentially eating Steak’s functionality and turning it into a complete acceptance testing solution (on top of RSpec).
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New Firefox and gem versions for our Selenium testing environment (Ubuntu 14.04+)
Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here is how to update affected projects.
- Update (or create)
.firefox-versionwith the content:24.0
If you haven't installed Firefo...
Capybara: Testing file downloads
Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of three things can happen:
- The browser shows a "Save as..." dialog. Since it is a modal dialog, we can no longer...
Capybara: Waiting for pending AJAX requests after a test
When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.
It may be a good idea to wait for all in-flight AJAX requests to finish before ending a scenario:
- You may have client-side...
Silencing Deprecation Warnings in Rspec
If you’re testing the behavior of deprecated code in your Ruby project, the warning messages littered throughout your spec output is incredibly noisy.
You could silence all warnings with ::ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true, but you might...
Standalone Cucumber Test Suite
Sometimes you inherit a non Rails or non Rack based web app such as PHP, Perl, Java / JEE, etc. I like using cucumber for functional testing so I put together this project structure to use as a starting point for testing non Ruby web based applica...
Configuring User Agents with Capybara + Selenium Webdriver
A while ago we were working on an application that had an entire version specially created for mobiles, such as the iPhone. This specific application was entirely tested with Capybara, Steak and Selenium Webdriver. Although the test suite wasn’t t...
Smarticus » Introduction to Acceptance Testing Ruby Web Applications
In this presentation, I demoed Cucumber and Webrat. I also talked about Integrity and how I like to put it all together.
Imperative vs Declarative Scenarios in User Stories
Bryan talked about the differences between imperative and declarative scenarios. In my opinion, both styles have benefits and should be used appropriately based on the situation. The majority of examples on rspec's story runner currently on the we...
Use Capybara on any HTML fragment or page
I think this pattern is really useful not just for upgrading suites from Webrat, but really anywhere you have an HTML fragment or string that you’d like to use Capybara’s matchers on.