SitePrism 2.1 is out, and thanks to a pull request from 3coins you can now use xpath instead of css if you like. Take a look at the docs here: http://rdoc.info/gems/site_prism/file/README.md#CSS_Selectors_vs__XPath_Expressions.
As usual, find SitePrism here: https://github.com/natritmeyer/site_prism
So, I’ve previously put together an JUnit formatter for RSpec so I can use RSpec with Jenkins/Hudson, but it was a bit of a hack. People seem to use and like it so I’ve redeveloped it and packaged it as a gem. I’ve also fixed a few problems with it, particularly how it groups tests together. It’s called… “Yet Another RSpec JUnit Formatter“, AKA: yarjuf. Inspired, I know.
Read about it here: https://github.com/natritmeyer/yarjuf
To install: gem install yarjuf
A little while back, a question was asked on StackOverflow: “Why not include assertions in page methods?”
I wrote an answer (something along the lines of: “Almost Never“) and it would be cool if more people added their own thoughts to the question. Whether methods in page objects should contain assertions is a debate that never goes away…
So, assertions in page object methods? Or not? Either way, go write up your thoughts!
I’ve recently come across a problem when doing UI testing with Firefox on a Mac against a web app that uses NTLM authentication. Every time I navigated to the web app I was presented with a dialog box asking me for my username and password.
I did some reading and came across Alister Scott’s Automatic Firefox authentication when using Selenium-WebDriver with AutoAuth post. In it he explains a way to get around the problem:
- Create a Firefox profile using the profile manager
- Add the required credentials to the profile
- Use the above Firefox profile when running tests
- Add the AutoAuth plugin to the profile at test execution time
The above would get around my problem, but it would lead to having to maintain a firefox profile which isn’t nice. So, I decided to attempt writing a firefox plugin that would allow me to add credentials to firefox’s password manager at runtime using Javascript. After all, according to the documentation it looked possible…
After a bit of hacking, the result is my first Firefox plugin: the Test Automation Password Manager plugin. It’s quite simple to use; you can find instructions here:
https://github.com/natritmeyer/test_automation_firefox_password_manager
…and the plugin page here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/test-automation-password-ma/
I’ve not tested it extensively – “It Works On My Machine” 
It’s time for another update to SitePrism. Version 1.3 provides the ability to wait for the visibility or invisibility of an element or section.
SitePrism 1.2 was released earlier today, an upgrade that lets you interact with iframes. Take a look at the iframe section of the README for an example.
So, it’s time to…
bundle update
…or…
gem update site_prism
I needed to get a list of all the tags used in a cucumber project, and what follows is the formatter I wrote to list them all for me.
To use it, save the code in a file called list_tags.rb and then execute the following command:
cucumber -d -f Cucumber::Formatter::ListTags
Done!
In a fit of insomnia over the weekend, and prompted by a feature that arrived in a pull request from Remi Taylor, I released SitePrism v1.1.1. It’s a minor release, and from it you can expect the following: