Cucumber / Selenium: Access and test document title
If you want to test that a certain text is contained within the document title of your page, you can do so using Selenium and a step such as
Then /^"(.*?)" should be shown in the document title$/ do |expectation|
title = page.driver.browser.title
title.should include(expectation)
end
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