Tag Archives: Automated Testing

Testing redirects with ruby

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Nat

—UPDATE— Since writing this post, I’ve put together a gem called ‘responsalizr‘ which is a way better solution than what follows in this post. Read about it here. And now back to the original post… Testing redirects from a web … 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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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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