Category Archives: Ruby

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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RQuery: A thin layer of JQuery over watir/selenium

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Nat

So I went to a presentation today, run by Aidy Lewis and Josh Chisholm about Josh’s new RQuery project; here’s a braindump of what I remember. RQuery is not supposed to be a competitor to Selenium or Watir but builds … Continue reading →

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How to test a WPF app using IronRuby and White

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Nat

—UPDATE— Since I wrote this post, I have put together a ruby gem designed for testing WPF UIs called ‘bewildr’. I wrote up an introductory post about bewildr here. Bewildr removes the need for using White – it’s written in … Continue reading →

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Updated script to list all cucumber step definitions

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Nat

In a previous post I put up a small script that would dump out all step definitions available in a cucumber project. Here’s an updated version… it hasn’t changed much apart from the output is now a html table that … Continue reading →

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Automating a WPF UI using ruby, win32ole and White

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Nat

UPDATE (17/2/2010): It *can* be done, see here: How to test a WPF app using IronRuby and White. The solution doesn’t use win32ole though… just IronRuby —– Short story: it doesn’t work (…well, not out-of-the-box). Long story: I’ve finally had … Continue reading →

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Lessons from a watir success story

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Nat

There aren’t enough UI test automation success stories documented on the net, so here’s my contribution. This post is about  how we started with zero automated UI testing capability, and how a couple of months later we had the capability … Continue reading →

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