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Automated Testing with Cucumber and Capybara

Automated Testing with Cucumber and Capybara

OH HAI

What is Cucumber?

• BDD Framework
• Written in Ruby
• Understands Gherkin Language

Feature:
  As a user I should be able to create a clone

Background:
  Given I am on SQL Clone Dashboard

Scenario: Navigate to 'Clone Destination' page
  When I click on "Clone" button
  Then I should see "Clone Destination" heading

Given(/^I am on SQL Clone Dashboard$/) do
  pending
end

When(/^I click on "([^"]*)" button$/) do |arg1|
  pending
end

Then(/^I should see "([^"]*)" heading$/) do |arg1|
  pending
end

What is Capybara?

• Web-based test automation framework
• Can be used with Cucumber
• Selenium, PhantomJS, etc.
• DSL

visit('/dashboard')
click_button('Clone')
select('DEV-ONATM', from: 'Clone Destination')
fill_in('Clone Name', with: 'Clone1')

Demo

xvfb-run -a --server-args="-screen 0 1920x1080x24" cucumber --format pretty --format html --out results.html

References

• https://cucumber.io/
• http://teamcapybara.github.io/capybara/
• https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2013/08/cucumber-setup-basics/
• https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2013/08/cucumber-capybara-poltergeist/