Cucumber: Removing uploaded files after test runs
Cucumber will clean up files you've uploaded in your Cucumber features automatically with the attached code. Put the file in features/support/.
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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...
Cancelling the ActiveRecord callback chain
| What | Rails version | Within before_*
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Within after_*
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| Cancel later callbacks | Rails 1-4 | `re... |
Capybara: Most okayest helper to download and inspect files
Testing file download links in an end-to-end test can be painful, especially with Selenium.
The attached download_helpers.rb provides a download_link method for your Capybara tests. It returns a hash describing the download...
Fixing flaky E2E tests
An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium WebDriver. This card shows basic techniques for fixing a flaky E2E test suite that sometimes passes and sometimes fails.
Although many examples ...
Lightning Talk: Coverage based Test Case Prioritization in Ruby on Rails
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....
How to test a confirm dialog with Cucumber? - Stack Overflow
Seems like there's no way to do it in Capybara, unfortunately. But if you're running your tests with the Selenium driver (and probably other drivers that support JavaScript), you can hack it
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...
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...
Rails < 5: How to get after_commit callbacks fired in tests
If you use transactional_fixtures or the database_cleaner gem with strategy :transaction, after_commit callbacks will not be fired in your tests.
Rails 5+
Rails 5 has a [fix](https://...
Test your application's e-mail spam scoring with mail-tester.com
You can use mail-tester.com to check your application's e-mails for issues that might cause e-mails to be classified as spam.
They provide a one-time e-mail addresses that you can use to sign up etc. You can then c...