By default when I run a freshen scenario, which contains an undefined given/when/then clause, that test is simply marked as undefined. No further helpful message as to what actually isn't defined is given. Is there a way to change this behavior to get more information what exactly was undefined? ...
I've been writing RSpec tests for some Rails controllers and I've discovered a strong impulse to ensure that the Authlogic authentication is working properly. I also feel like I should be verifying that each action uses the same application-wide layout. However, writing tests for this behavior in every single action seems silly. What I'...
How do you handle user stories/acceptance tests that have long chains like this one, where the Then/When mingle together? Is it best to split this into a separate acceptance test where one tests that the dialog appears and then the second one tests the behavior after the dialog has been shown? Feature: Confirmation before removing prod...
I've been trying out the easyb BDD framework for about a day and a half and I'm not sure I understand the difference between a story and a specification(besides the syntax). A story uses the given, when, then syntax and a scenario uses the description, it, it... syntax. Besides the syntax is there a difference between the two? Is u...
For every project it's like having two parts: the Rails application and then all documents and pictures related to it. I wonder how you organize them both. Do you put everything under the same project root folder and apply Git on that folder or don't you protect your documents with Git at all? Then, what if the docs are too sensitive ...
I have setup cucumber+webrat+selenium to test my rails app. This works well locally, and works about 50% of the time on my build (CI) server. The other 50% of the time, the first scenario in each feature fails with this error: Failed to start new browser session, shutdown browser and clear all session data Back trace starts with: or...
Hi, This is more of a general question and some sort of best practice discussion. How would one test a Rails application? There are mantras like BDD and TDD and frameworks like RSpec and Cucumber but how much is enough and what is the best way to go? Is it enough to use Cucumber as integration tests? Are you guys writing additional ...
Hi there, i am trying to write a view_spec for my login form that uses authlogic. This is my current view_spec: require 'spec_helper' describe "user_sessions/new.html.haml" do before :each do user_session = mock("UserSession").as_null_object assign(:user_session, user_session) end it "should have a login form" do re...
I have the following as a cucumber story: @javascript Scenario: Showing the page Given I am a logged in user And there is a member with a site And I go to the home page ..... When that home page is loaded, there is a drop down that is populated via AJAX on page, in the selenium run browser test the $(document).ready(funtion...
hello coders and codetts I am working with rails 3 and cucumber, all is going well except for this little problem Given I am on the "edit automobile" page No route matches {:controller=>"automobiles", :action=>"edit"} (ActionController::RoutingError) Now the path is set in paths.rb as edit_automobile_path and in the routes.rb I ha...
In a previous question found here, I asked a question about BDD and SpecFlow. The best answer was to use nSpec instead of SpecFlow. I found nSpec, but I am having trouble finding tutorials on how to use it with C#. My google mojo isn't working for this topic. Apart from the small instructional on the nSpec github site on how to insta...
If I have the following steps defined, is this valid scenario? I feel like it is some kind of smell. Scenario: Change users status Given I have the following users exist: | code | status | | u1 | active | | u2 | inactive | | u3 | active | And the status filter is "active" When I up...
I am writing features with the same verbiage for some scenarios. Feature: User Management Scenario: Edit an existing user's details Given a user exists and Feature: Group Management Scenario: Add a user to a group's membership Given a user exists And a group exists In SpecFlow is there a good way to define what step each feature ca...
I'm reading through the (still beta) rspec book by the prag progs as I'm interested in behavioral testing on objects. From what I've gleaned so far (caveat: after only reading for 30 min) the basic idea is that I want ensure my object behaves as expected 'externally' ie. in its output and in relation to other objects. Is it true then t...
I'm having trouble creating specs for my views and requests. Some of my controllers use named_scope, like this: #projects_controller.rb @projects = Project.with_user( current_user) ## project.rb: scope :with_user, lambda {|u| {:joins => :client, :conditions => {:clients => {:user_id => u.id} } }} but the following spec gives an ...
Are you using factory_girl or machinist for stubbing/mocking in Rails tests? ...
I'm trying to get webrat to select a radio button from a list, using cucumber. I have this scenario: Scenario: Update an existing article Given I have an article with title Big Bananas and body text Big yellow bananas are good for you And I am on the list of articles When I choose "Big Bananas" And press "Update article...
I have a Rails application with over 2,000 examples in my RSpec tests. Needless to say, it's a large application and there's a lot to be tested. Running these tests at this point is very inefficient and because it takes so long, we're almost at the point of being discouraged from writing them before pushing a new build. I added --profile...
Is there an easy way to initialize a cucumber folder structure like rails generators? ...
IMO one of the main characteristics of a good TDD is: testing your class (or actually unit) in isolation. When you do so, you are able to actually test single behavior in each test -- only one test will fall for a single problem you have. For this you first must verify that there are no static references from your class (including cons...