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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
makandra/gemika: Helpers for testing Ruby gems
We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and database types.
Here's what Gemika can give your test's development setup (all features are opt...