Thoughtbot's experiences with headless Javascript testing

PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit.

It has fast and native support for various web standards:

DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

PhantomJS can be fully scripted using JavaScript. It is an optimal solution for headle...

The Holy Grail of testing for front-end development; execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite.

Run your Jasmine specs without a browser

Simple DOM-less

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...

Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework.

Please note: "Permission to use Prototip on your domain is required and can be obtained by paying a small fee."

Added utility methods for the Prototype Javascript framework.

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...

Because javascript has something called "Hoisting" which makes your code do things it doesn't look like it should be doing. Basically, that means a javascript interpreter will move all var declarations, regardless of where they are in the body of ...

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...