Category Archives: Tools

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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Netbeans ‘Cucumber Features’ plugin in Beta!

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Nat

The best ruby IDE, Netbeans, now has a Cucumber plugin in beta! It’s the old “QuBiT” plugin that I’ve been using for a while though it looks like it’s been rebranded as the “Cucumber Features” plugin. Here it is: As … 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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How to connect to an Oracle database in IronRuby

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Nat

After spending a few hours trying to connect to an oracle database in ironruby using various gems, I gave up. None of the gems out there would work, each for a different reason. It was time to write my own … 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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