You can use the step definition below to say this: Then the "Last name" field should have an error
Eventually you’ll forget that you used to spend hours testing your code in a browser, and start complaining that your automated tests are taking minutes to run! You’ll...
...have intense debates with co-workers about what to test and how to test it properly. You’ll start writing the test first to expose the bug or missing feature...
Then /^I should get a response with status (\d+)$/ do |status| response.status.should include(status) end Capybara Then /^I should...
To delay your entire Jasmine test suite until the DOM is ready, add the following: beforeAll(function(done) {
Don't say is_a?(ActiveRecord::NamedScope::Scope) because that is no longer true in Rails 3 and also doesn...
The easiest way to freeze or travel through time in a Jasmine spec is to use the built-in jasmine.clock...
Safari & Chrome Use $x() in your console: $x('//span') # selects all span elements Firefox There's an add-on.
When you roll custom URLs with hacks like routing-filter, you can put a spec like this into spec/routing/routing_spec.rb:
...problem of pending AJAX requests dying in the browser when the server ends a test or switches scenarios. We were able to work around this issue in most projects by...
Cucumber will clean up files you've uploaded in your Cucumber features automatically with the attached code. Put the file...
...go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the...
...should’s within a context into a single test...
The idea is this: you take a job that you'd rather not do manually, and describe it to babushka...
Requestb.in is a webservice that gives you a temporary URL you can use to test request. The page will automatically record and display the latest web request made to it...
The pages listed here contain tests and experiments about features, possibilities, browsers’ bugs concerning CSS. That is, over 200 experiments...
The linked site hosts a simple test. It shows two images with narrow vertical/horizontal lines. The more they resemble each other, the more Retina your display is...
Enter the hostname of a server to test it for CVE...
Mornings can be rough. To make them a little easier, leave yourself a failing test if your work isn’t finished. When you come back to the project, it makes...
The argument that using tests is a ideologic waster of time fails when one considers how it can help to insure architectural decisions...
I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string...
Unit tests are to refactoring like a drop cloth is to painting. Both feel like more work at first but ultimately save you time by allowing you to move faster...
...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
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.
Interesting talk about a team that integrated automated security testing into their BDD workflow. There is also a video of the talk...
Updated the card with our current best practice (shared app code and specs via symlinks).