Tag Archives: NetBeans

Netbeans ‘Cucumber Features’ plugin in Beta!

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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How to test a WPF app using IronRuby and White

…and you thought ruby was only good for web testing… So… having previously failed at getting ruby-based automated testing of WPF working, I attacked it from a different angle and succeeded! The difference is that this time I used IronRuby … Continue reading

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Lessons from a watir success story

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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Debugging cucumber tests with ruby-debug

Testing with cucumber blows test/unit out of the water, apart from one small aspect… I can’t use the Netbeans’ GUI debugger. The Netbeans debugger has been a joy to use, but sadly I have to say goodbye. So I’m left … Continue reading

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Running NetBeans ruby tests from the command line

As far as doing UI testing with watir/firewatir goes, NetBeans is a fantastic IDE. It’s lightweight, but powerful enough to do pretty much anything I need. The integration with Test::Unit is particularly good: I select a test file, I call … Continue reading

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