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 applications.
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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...
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
Speed up large Cucumber test suites
Test suites usually grow over time as more and more development time is spent on a projects. Overall run-time and performance of Cucumber suites in turn increases, too.
You can use the very same way Henning [suggested for speeding up RSpec](https...
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 tu...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-version
with the content:24.0
If you haven't installed Firefo...