Category Archives: Automated Testing

Announcing ‘bewildr’ – test your WPF UI apps with IronRuby

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Nat

Get it here: http://www.bewildr.info After writing an automation framework to test a WPF GUI using IronRuby and White, I decided to write a ruby-specific gem for automating WPF UI tests. Kinda like Watir, but for WPF instead of the web. The … Continue reading →

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Testing a website on different versions of IE

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Nat

So, no matter how much you argue that it’s an ancient, irrelevant browser; there’s no way you can wriggle out of having to test your web app against IE6 on WinXP. But… trying to find a machine with it lying … Continue reading →

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Explaining Watir, Selenium and WebDriver

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Nat

Something I seem to be explaining to people all the time… the relationships between Watir, Watir “2.0″, Selenium, Selenium “2.0″ and WebDriver. Alister Scott has done an excellent job of explaining the impact of WebDriver on Selenium and Watir and … Continue reading →

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Testing redirects with ruby

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Nat

Testing redirects from a web app is simple enough – make a request and check the response code making sure it’s a 301, 302 or whatever you’re expecting. The test you end up writing isn’t nice idiomatic ruby though. So, … Continue reading →

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Remove junk from IronRuby cucumber output

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Nat

When running cucumber tests under IronRuby, your output will be full of junk like the following: Feature: example feature Scenario: a scenario←[90m     # features\testoutput.feature:3←[0m ←[32mGiven some test setup←[90m  # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:1←[0m←[0m ←[32mWhen I do something←[90m    # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:5←[0m←[0m ←[32mThen something happens←[90m # … Continue reading →

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TURN: test::unit reporting as it should have been…

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Nat

TURN (“Test::Unit Reporter (New)”) aims to fix test::unit‘s default output. Instead of waiting until the end of a test run for failure details, Turn displays failures immediately. It looks promising… Bookmark to:

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How to test a WPF app using IronRuby and White

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Nat

…and you thought ruby was only good for web testing… So… having previously failed at getting ruby-based automated testing of WPF working, I attacked it from a different angle and succeeded! The difference is that this time I used IronRuby … Continue reading →

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