Can I use Webrat for ASP.NET applications?

Question

Does Webrat require that the web application be written in Ruby/Rails?

I'd like to try it for writing tests against an ASP.NET web application.

Answer 1

It would be easier to jump to rails :P I stumbled upon this post because I was thinking that would be very handy.

Have a look at Cuke4Nuke

Also checkout the authors blog, there is a nice screencast but it uses WatiN

There is also some discussion here about eventually being able to build the equivalent of webrat for mvc

https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211-cucumber/tickets/428-wire-protocol

Answer 2

You can use webrat for any application, not just Rails. What you do is to use Cucumber + Webrat + Mechanize adapter. This combination makes ordinary HTTP requests against your web application.

In fact, for the moment, i'm working on a simple smoketest that tests a website portal and can verify that everything is up and running in different environments. (localhost, test env, staging, production).

Have a look in Cucumbers' source. There is an example in the folder: cucumber/examples/webrat/

What you do is to tell Webrat to use the Mechanize adapter. Now you have a headless browser that can access any application regardless of the framework it uses.

Note that if you need full javascript support, you probably want something else (Watir,Firewatir, Selenium, etc).