Ruby - Cucumber / web site testing with watir webdrivers and capybara

Ruby module R222

Cucumber / web site testing with watir webdrivers and capybara

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module R222. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
4501	Defining the behaviour of your web site and testing that it works This example uses ... Capybara, Cumumber, Gherkin, RSpec, Selenium and Ruby ... yes, you'll need an explanation later on of what all of these are! Have you ever updates something on a website, only to find that it the process you've broken something else? I've been teaching Behaviour Driven Development ...	2015-05-30
4389	Cucumber example - test::unit, scenario outlines, datafile driven test Another Cucumber example - this time using test::unit, and with tables of cases in both the feature file and a separate data file. Running the code: WomanWithCat:s2015 grahamellis$ cucumber behaviourtable Feature: Checking some things on quotations Scenario: ...	2015-01-08
4387	Regression Testing my website - Cucumber and Watir Problem - I update my website to make a change and in doing so break something that's worked for years. Frequency of occurence - All too often! And as my website grows over the months and years, so the changes of a change breaking something from the past increases, and so the need for testing increases. ...	2015-01-07
3426	Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver How do you test your web site? With a visit to a few pages, or by waiting for customer feedback if something's not working? That's a very risky approach, and what you really need is a planned and systematic testing regime, with unit tests that must be passed (but will flag fails) run on a regular basis. There ...	2011-09-09

Examples from our training material

breakfast.php	First sample page to test
first.feature	Simplest feature file
framework.inc	include file for microPHP site for testing
gunnislake.feature	features - back end JSON service
hello_quotation.feature	Gherkin - Behaviour description
hello_sel_steps.rb.hold	Tests - using Selenium
hello_wat_steps.rb.hold	Tests - using Watir
lunches.php	Test Application for Ruby / Cucumber
one_steps.rb	implementation of first features
plym.feature	Feature - first test of lunches
plymouth.txt	Sample output of running final example
quotation.feature	Gherkin Behaviour for a web site
quotation_steps.rb	Step definitions for web site testing
second.feature	Testing lunch requirements
second_steps.rb	implementation tests for lunch application
tamar.feature	First simple connectivity test
tamarsteps.rb	steps for plym,tamar and gunnislake
titleregister.json	Json sample

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].

Topics covered in this module

The web site testing issues.
Using watir-webdrivers to automate your test.
Specifying Behaviour in Gherkin.
Translating to tests in the step definitio.

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