eacymanski / Capybara101

An introduction to acceptance testing

#Testing With Capybara

##Work in Progress

Skill Level: Beginner
Time Limit: 30 minutes

The aim of this challenge is to introduce you to acceptance testing. Your job will be to create automated tests using Capybara & Cucumber that mimic a user logging into the site and navigating to a special page.

NOTE: To login, your username must be the same as your password.

Capybara helps us test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with an app.

##Instructions

• Clone the repo to your computer and bundle its gems
• Run the application bundle exec rackup -p 4567 then navigate to localhost:4567 in your browser and see what the app does
• Then run your cucumber tests cucumber features
• View the cucumber login.feature that's been created for you
• Fill out its step_definitions so that they pass
• Then complete the logout.feature and its steps to test logging out a user

##Considerations

• What needs to be tested to ensure that the user authentication functionality of this app works correctly?
• Besides the faulty password scheme, what's the other glaring authentication problem with this application?
• Cucumber is not a big fan of duplicating step_definitions, do you think you might reuse some of the steps from login_steps for your new scenarios.

##Resources

• Capybara Docs
• Cucumber Documentation