Comments for Nat On Testing

Comment on Kill process by name using Ruby on Windows by epidemicz

epidemicz — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:37:28 +0000

Excellent! Kind of sucks they haven’t built in a method to grab process by name. The taskkill tip was very helpful though, thanks!

Comment on Debugging cucumber tests with ruby-debug by Russell

Russell — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:16:07 +0000

If you get this error:

ERROR: Error installing ruby-debug:
rbx-require-relative requires Ruby version ~> 1.8.7.

try:

gem install ruby-debug19

Comment on RSpec and ci_reporter by Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:28:49 +0000

You absolutely saved me from searching around! Thanks!

Comment on Stop Ruby’s Test::Unit suite files running all your tests by Nat

Nat — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:43:51 +0000

Both past tense, both correct:
1) He ran (simple past tense)
2) He had run (past perfect tense)

Dreamr, welcome to the English language. It’s tough, but it gets easier

Comment on Stop Ruby’s Test::Unit suite files running all your tests by Dreamr

Dreamr — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:15:27 +0000

Umm, is English your first language? The past tense of Run is Ran.

Comment on Get HTML output from Test::Unit by using RSpec !? by Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:16:04 +0000

Hi, I was using rspecs in my project and I was wondering if there is a way to get only the failed cases in the html. I have about 1000 test cases and it becomes quite difficult to look for the ones failed was wondering if i can get only the error results in the file

Comment on CSS Locator Reference/Cheat Sheet for XPath people by Nat

Nat — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:35:59 +0000

@anthony, I’m not sure about watir as I’m using capybara these days.

It’s not really answering your question, but I imagine that css selectors in watir-webdriver would be pretty fast. Both capybara and watir-webdriver wrap selenium-webdriver, and its css performance is pretty good… so… if you’re refactoring, I’d change watir to watir-webdriver (shouldn’t be too painful) and xpath to css.

There’s some good info here: http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/why-css-locators-are-the-way-to-go-vs-xpath/

update
And on watir’s selectors, I wrote up my opinion in the comments on this post: http://watirmelon.com/2011/08/09/death-to-xpath-and-css-selectors-in-automated-tests/

Comment on CSS Locator Reference/Cheat Sheet for XPath people by Anthony Hallett

Anthony Hallett — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:23:26 +0000

A question about Watir selectors vs xpath vs css locators.
I’ve noticed that xpath seems to be noticeably slower than Watir selectors hence I try to limit using it.
I’m about to do major refactor so am wondering if css locators are faster?