doamaral / ruby-rspec-selenium-capybara

Trying out basic setup and features for UI testing using Capybara

ruby-rspec-selenium-capybara

Incrementing test project with Capybara. Although Capybara is not required to automate ui tests, it has a great DSL that might boost our experience scripting automate tests.

Initial project structure

• Same basic steps from the ruby-rspec-selenium Project until the Writing first test script Step
• Add gem 'capybara', '~> 3.29' to the Gemfile
• Run bundle install command to install all your gems
• Add require 'capybara/rspec' and config.include Capybara::DSL to the spec_helper.rb file
• Add basic Browser configurations through Capybara.configure do |config|

Capybara.configure do |config|
    config.default_driver = :selenium #Firefox default driver, it's also possible to use  :selenium_chrome and :selenium_chrome_headless
    config.default_max_wait_time = 5 #implicit wait
    config.app_host = "http://the-internet.herokuapp.com"
end

Obs: More possible configs

Using Capybara's DSL

capybara cheat sheet

• Navigation is done using visit "<URL>"
• Actions:
  • fill_in [locator], with: "value": locator can be the name, id, test_id attribute, placeholder, or label text
  • click_on [locator] or click_button [locator]
  • choose [locator]
  • check [locator]
  • select "Option", from: [locator]
• Finders:
  • find
  • find_link
  • find_button
• Querying:
  • page.has_selector?('table tr')
  • page.has_selector?(:xpath, './/table/tr')
  • page.has_xpath?('.//table/tr')
  • page.has_css?('table tr.foo')
  • page.has_content?('foo')