ruby-rspec-selenium

Using the minimal number of libs to do UI Testing

Initial project structure

bundle init to Generate Gemfile
Go to Rubygems and look for the right way to pu rspec and selenium-webdriver at the Gemfile

gem 'rspec', '~> 3.9'
gem 'selenium-webdriver', '~> 3.142', '>= 3.142.6'

bundle install to install all gems at Gemfile
rspec --init to create rspec structure:
- spec folder
  - spec_helper.rb file
- .rspec file

Create the first test file at spec folder test_specfile.rb
Describe: our first scenario
- All starts with a describe plus it (or example) commands
To run tests, just type rspec <specfile>.rb
It is not a actual test script without an assertion: using expect [More info about Expectations]
Creating class file to play around doing tests with an objects

First of all, you must Download Firefox, Chrome Driver compatible with your Browser
Put its path into the Path environment variable
create file test_with_selenium.rb
add require 'selenium-webdriver'
Start to use Selenium API
- Start with driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox or :chrome
- driver.get "<URL>" open and load a Web Page
  - You can use driver.navigate.to "<URL>", to navigate to a webpage also
Exercise element locators with: find_element (HOW, WHAT)
- HOW: Strategy used to locate elements
  - :id
  - :name
  - :class
  - :tag_name
  - :css
- WHAT: text to find element
RSpec Hooks:
- before, after:
  - :each
  - :all

One can find interesting moving standard configurations, including stardard Hooks to spec_helper.rb file
- Do it within RSpec.configure do |config| session
Using tags to filter examples: it 'example name', :tag do ... or it 'example name', :tag => 'tag value' do ...
Running options
- Test Progress style: rspec spec/test_*.rb --format documentation
- Running filtering by tags: rspec spec/test_*.rb --tag tag or rspec spec/test_*.rb --tag tag:'tag value'
- Running filtering by example name: rspec spec/test_*.rb --example 'example name' or rspec spec/test_*.rb -e 'example name'

Implement POM
Explore more types of Elements: Combo box, Radiobutton, check box and Ajax calls